Rescue mode, accessing external USB drive.

jxrod2000 · 12-26-2006, 12:00 PM

Hello,

Before I get to my question, please assume the following:

I have just booted into rescue mode, using my Suse 10 boot disk. I am now looking at the root prompt. I also have an external hard drive connected via a USB port. Also assume that that drive has 4 partitions all formated using ext3.

How do I mount any one of those partitions on that drive to /mnt?

Thanks,
Joe.

Lenard · 12-26-2006, 12:06 PM

Use something like the command 'fdisk -l' to find out how if the external USB drive is known to the system then mount them for example;

mkdir /mnt/part1 /mnt/part2 /mnt/part3 /mnt/part4
mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /mnt/part1
(repeat for the other partitions, swap does not mounting BTW)

jxrod2000 · 12-26-2006, 12:29 PM

Thanks,

The missing piece was the device name. I didn't know which device it would map to.