Re: mount previously formatted linux drive
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>On Sat, 04 Mar 2006 17:19:38 -0500
>Marty Landman <mlandman@face2interface.com> wrote:
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>>At 04:13 PM 3/4/2006, Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote:
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>>>�ann 2006-03-04, 15:35:43 (-0500) skrifa�i Marty Landman:
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>>>>I have installed woody on hda and also mounted hdd. hdc is my cdrom and
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>>>hdb
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>>>>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.
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>>>>How can I keep the data on hdb and access it on my debian system?
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>>>Did you try to mount it with the following line?
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>>>mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb /path/to/mountpoint
>>>(or is it a ext3 filessystem?)
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>>>If not give us the full command and the ls -l outcome of the mount
>>>point.
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>>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.
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>you could try fdisk and see what it shows for the partition in question.
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why not cfdisk
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