Re: Reading an old HDD
* Ash Joubert <ash@transient.nz> [24-10/04=Fri 16:38 +1300]:
> On 2024-10-04 16:26, Will Mengarini wrote:
>> The old HDD is mostly ext3; there was also an
>> ext2 boot partition, and a swap partition. But
>> the new Debian shows nothing new in `df`. Is
>> there some other command I should use to probe for
>> whether Debian knows there's a HDD connected by USB?
>
> "df" will ignore filesystems until they are mounted.
*headsmack* Thanks.
> - Do you see anything in "blkid" when the USB enclosure is attached?
Nothing changes.
> - Do you see anything in "journalctl -f" when you plug in the USB enclosure?
No output when I unplug it and replug it.
> - Do you have a desktop file manager (e.g. Thunar in XFCE) [...]
No desktop; I haven't installed X yet.
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