[clue-tech] mount second hard drive

[David L. Willson]

That last command should have been

# ls -lR /dev/disk
not
# ls -LR /dev/disk

The capital ell was a mistake, should have been lowercase.  Sorry...

On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:57:29 -0600, David L. Willson wrote
> You are probably mounting your /boot and swap partitions, rather than your 
> root partition.
> 
> Try:
> 
> # mount /dev/hdb5 /tmp2
> or
> # mount /dev/hdb3 /tmp2
> 
> If you still don't have what you want, return the output from:
> 
> $ su -
> # fdisk -l /dev/hdb
> # ls -LR /dev/disk
> 
> --David
> 
> On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:49:54 -0600, Bob Meetin wrote
> > Sorry but I am having little/no luck with this. I'm not a systems admin 
> > techy type.  I could use a series of options or commands to run to get 
> > the disk mounted correctly.  The drive I'm booting off is redhat 9; the 
> > drive I need to mount is fedora.
> > 
> > # mkdir /tmp2
> > # mount /dev/hdb1 /tmp2
> > 
> > This seems to mount the drive but all I see is config files, lost+found, 
> > vmlinuz.... etc.  If I try something like
> > 
> > # mount /dev/hdb2 /tmp2
> > 
> > It says you must specifiy a file system type, so I added a variety of 
> > different options like
> > 
> > # mount -t ext /dev/hdb2 /tmp2  (ext2, ext3, ext2nfs. etc... )
> > 
> > They all return fs type not supported by kernel.
> > 
> > -Bob
> > ------
> > 
> > Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/hda2             37752584   9506116  26328712  27% /
> > /dev/hda1               101089      9274     86596  10% /boot
> > none                    378116         0    378116   0% /dev/shm
> > /dev/hdb1               101086     18598     77269  20% /tmp2
> > 
> > [bobbo at localhost ~]$ ls /tmp2
> > config-2.6.23.15-80.fc7      lost+found
> > config-2.6.23.17-88.fc7      System.map-2.6.23.15-80.fc7
> > grub                         System.map-2.6.23.17-88.fc7
> > initrd-2.6.23.15-80.fc7.img  vmlinuz-2.6.23.15-80.fc7
> > 
> > initrd-2.6.23.17-88.fc7.img  vmlinuz-2.6.23.17-88.fc7
> > 
> > #  David L. Anselmi wrote:
> > > Bob Meetin wrote:
> > >> What options with the mount command will get me from point a to point 
> > >> b?  A temporary mount is fine.
> > >
> > > The default options should be fine.
> > >
> > > You need to know where your data is though, which means how your 
> > > computer names that partition.  This will probably get you there:
> > >
> > > https://help.ubuntu.com/7.04/installation-guide/i386/device-names.html
> > >
> > > Once you know the disk device you can use fdisk -l to show you how it 
> > > is partitioned.
> > >
> > > Dave
> > >
> > 
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> -- David
> 
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-- David