Re: mounting old ext2 - "does not exist"

[Torben Brosten <torben@kappacorp.com>]

> > > This is pretty confusing; can you post the results of
> > >
> > > mac-fdisk -l
> > > and
> > > mount /dev/hdb8 /oldsuse
> > > ?
> > >      
> > sure... (sorry for the confusion)
> >
> > debian2:~# mount /dev/hdb8 /oldsuse
> > mount: mount point /oldsuse does not exist
> >    
>
> As Rogerio says, mkdir /oldsuse
>  
>
> So, just possibly, you can use mac-fdisk to create hdb7 and hdb8
> as normal linux partitions -- use e.g.
>
> c 7p 7p suse1
>
> So that you don't change the sizes at all. (Be sure you're editing hdb
> of course). Write the map to disk, and see if the mount command works
> after rebooting. The idea is that maybe the partition got deleted from
> the partition map, but really still has the ext2 filesystem on it

Thank you, Chris and Rogerio.  I forgot to create the dir first:

cd /
mkdir /oldsuse
mount /dev/hdb8 /oldsuse
cd /oldsuse
ls
[shows list of old data files]

=D