Marty Landman 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.Marty
First, I expect that the hard disk has partitions. You should mount a partition (e.g. /dev/hdb1) and not the whole disk (/dev/hdb).
Secondly. If you know the partition but don't know what kind of filesystem is on it, just use the command "file --special-file" for the partition device. My partition is saying:
# file --special-file /dev/hda2/dev/hda2: Linux rev 1.0 ext3 filesystem data (needs journal recovery) (large files)
#Now I know that it has an ext3 filesystem and I can mount it with: "mount -t etx3 /dev/hda2 /mnt"
Regards, Vincent