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	travla	2011-03-01 , 21:22
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Originally Posted by michaaa62

Most of the time a partition will get mounted if a file system is in a bad state or corrupted. You need rootsh to be installed for this to work from X-Terminal.
Code:
sudo gainroot
umount /dev/mmcblk0p1
fsck -af /dev/mmcblk0p1
mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /home/user/MyDocs

Thanks for the response guys. Is there any warnings/words of advice (other than backup) that you would give me before I do the above. Am I at risk of losing data or further corrupting my file system by carrying out the above?

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