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Re: mounting old ext2 - "does not exist"



On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 08:11:31PM -0700, Torben Brosten wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> How can I get the debian system to recognize an SuSE ppc ext2 partition?
> Adding a line to /etc/fstab doesn't seem to work:
> /dev/hdb8  /oldsuse  ext2  defaults
> 
> On a BWG3, have a partition table that looks like (ref, type):
> (misc apple partitions omitted)
> 
> # hda has debian and macos installed (and working)
> 
> hda2 --not available -- NewWorld bootblock
> hda6 --not available -- HFS
> hda7 --not available -- HFS
> hda8 swap  Linux Swap
> hda9 -- not mounted -- Linux native # debian root /
> 
> # hdb was hda with SuSE 7.3ppc on it -- partitions have not be 
> re-writtent or initialized
> 
> hdb5 -- not mounted -- Apple_HFS
> hdb6 -- not mounted -- Apple_HFS
> hdb7 -- not available --- Apple_Free  # SuSE linux /boot
> hdb8 -- not available -- Apple_Free # was SuSE root partition
> 
> I'm willing to re-install debian if necessary... I need access to the 
> old data.

This is pretty confusing; can you post the results of

mac-fdisk -l
and
mount /dev/hdb8 /oldsuse
?

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