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Re: mount previously formatted linux drive



On Sat, 04 Mar 2006 17:19:38 -0500
Marty Landman <mlandman@face2interface.com> wrote:

> At 04:13 PM 3/4/2006, Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote:
> >Þann 2006-03-04, 15:35:43 (-0500) skrifaði Marty Landman:
> > > I have installed woody on hda and also mounted hdd. hdc is my cdrom and 
> > hdb
> > > is a 250gb linux drive from an old redhat installation on this box which
> > > has data on it I would like to keep. During the Woody install I attempted
> > > to mount hdb but was told that the mount point was invalid. I tried a
> > > variety of them.
> > >
> > > How can I keep the data on hdb and access it on my debian system?
> >
> >Did you try to mount it with the following line?
> >
> >mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb /path/to/mountpoint
> >(or is it a ext3 filessystem?)
> >
> >If not give us the full command and the ls -l outcome of the mount
> >point.
> 
> Thanks Oli. Not sure whether it is ext2 or ext3 and haven't quite completed 
> installing the OS... still in single user mode w/o SSH available d/l'g and 
> installing software probably till tomorrow. Will post back after that's all 
> done.
> 

you could try fdisk and see what it shows for the partition in question.

A

> Marty
> 
> 
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