<quote who="D.V. Rogers"> > Hello All > > I am trying to retrieve data of a 30gb drive which was running RH8.0. > The motherboard had failed and now trying to mount this drive under SuSe > 7.0. > > The drive is installed and appears to be working OK as I can see it > under disk management running W2k (dual boot with SuSe) > > /etc/fstab indicates that; > > My windows partition is in /dev/hda1 > /boot is /dev/hda5 > swap is /dev/hda6 > / is hda6 > > Can somebody please point me in the direction of how I can mount this > 30gb drive I need to get data off? > > And how do I find the drive to know what its mount point is? You could try doing dmesg | less and page down through the output to find the drive. If the drive was hda on the old setup and you have plugged it in to the second ide header then it will probably show up as hdc. When you have found it you can do (as root) fdisk -l /dev/hdc and find out how it is partitioned. How you mount the disk to recover the data depends on what file system was being used on the old Red Hat system. If it was an ext2 filesystem and if the mount point /mnt exists on your SuSe system then you would do mount -t ext2 /dev/hdc2 /mnt assuming that the partition containing the data was hdc2. You would the be able to access your data in /mnt/home/yourusername etc.
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