Re: Mounting HD from Live CD
On 13.07.2015, Aaron Gray wrote: Cheers Mike. I did try mounting previously but did not work will try again tomorrow. If you want proper help, please post the output of your mount attempt, e.g. mkdir /test mount /dev/sdX /test Where X is the proper partition/device number. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Mounting HD from Live CD
On 07/12/2015 03:08 PM, Aaron Gray wrote: I just need to mount an unencrypted F! volume on a Live F21 Distro On 12 July 2015 at 22:07, Aaron Gray aaronngray.li...@gmail.com wrote: non encrypted volume On 12 July 2015 at 21:36, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Aaron Gray aaronngray.li...@gmail.com wrote: How do I mount an old F21 HD which I have lost the password and work on using a F21 Live CD please ? The question is vague, can you be more specific? Is this drive encrypted and you're talking about the encryption passphrase? Or you're talking about the login passphrase? If the former, there is no way to break that encryption. If the latter, then just mount it normally and copy off what you want to keep - you don't even need to do this with live media, any Fedora installation can do this and bypass the user login. You might have to use sudo cp to copy the contents of files for which your new user doesn't have permissions for; and then fix that with: sudo chown -R chris:chris /path/to/files/ where chris is whatever the login+owner name is on your current system. -- Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org What is the pathname of the volume , starting with /dev ? If you have that pasthanme, then you should be able to run mount -t fstype absolute-volume-pathname absolute-mount-point-pathname You will have to be root to do so. Also, check and see if your DT already mounted it in /run/username/etc/... -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Mounting HD from Live CD
Cheers Mike. I did try mounting previously but did not work will try again tomorrow. On 12 July 2015 at 22:39, Mike Wright nob...@nospam.hostisimo.com wrote: On 07/12/2015 02:08 PM, Aaron Gray wrote: I just need to mount an unencrypted F! volume on a Live F21 Distro Easy task at hand. If the drive has more than one partition you'll have to do this for each one. sudo mount /dev/sd?# /mnt (e.g. /dev/sdb4) rsync -a /mnt/ /path/to/destination umount /mnt -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Mounting HD from Live CD
I just need to mount an unencrypted F! volume on a Live F21 Distro On 12 July 2015 at 22:07, Aaron Gray aaronngray.li...@gmail.com wrote: non encrypted volume On 12 July 2015 at 21:36, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Aaron Gray aaronngray.li...@gmail.com wrote: How do I mount an old F21 HD which I have lost the password and work on using a F21 Live CD please ? The question is vague, can you be more specific? Is this drive encrypted and you're talking about the encryption passphrase? Or you're talking about the login passphrase? If the former, there is no way to break that encryption. If the latter, then just mount it normally and copy off what you want to keep - you don't even need to do this with live media, any Fedora installation can do this and bypass the user login. You might have to use sudo cp to copy the contents of files for which your new user doesn't have permissions for; and then fix that with: sudo chown -R chris:chris /path/to/files/ where chris is whatever the login+owner name is on your current system. -- Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Mounting HD from Live CD
non encrypted volume On 12 July 2015 at 21:36, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Aaron Gray aaronngray.li...@gmail.com wrote: How do I mount an old F21 HD which I have lost the password and work on using a F21 Live CD please ? The question is vague, can you be more specific? Is this drive encrypted and you're talking about the encryption passphrase? Or you're talking about the login passphrase? If the former, there is no way to break that encryption. If the latter, then just mount it normally and copy off what you want to keep - you don't even need to do this with live media, any Fedora installation can do this and bypass the user login. You might have to use sudo cp to copy the contents of files for which your new user doesn't have permissions for; and then fix that with: sudo chown -R chris:chris /path/to/files/ where chris is whatever the login+owner name is on your current system. -- Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Mounting HD from Live CD
How do I mount an old F21 HD which I have lost the password and work on using a F21 Live CD please ? Many thanks in advance, Aaron -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Mounting HD from Live CD
On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Aaron Gray aaronngray.li...@gmail.com wrote: How do I mount an old F21 HD which I have lost the password and work on using a F21 Live CD please ? The question is vague, can you be more specific? Is this drive encrypted and you're talking about the encryption passphrase? Or you're talking about the login passphrase? If the former, there is no way to break that encryption. If the latter, then just mount it normally and copy off what you want to keep - you don't even need to do this with live media, any Fedora installation can do this and bypass the user login. You might have to use sudo cp to copy the contents of files for which your new user doesn't have permissions for; and then fix that with: sudo chown -R chris:chris /path/to/files/ where chris is whatever the login+owner name is on your current system. -- Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Mounting HD from Live CD
On 07/12/2015 02:08 PM, Aaron Gray wrote: I just need to mount an unencrypted F! volume on a Live F21 Distro Easy task at hand. If the drive has more than one partition you'll have to do this for each one. sudo mount /dev/sd?# /mnt (e.g. /dev/sdb4) rsync -a /mnt/ /path/to/destination umount /mnt -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
