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I have a HP pavilion laptop with 2 hard drives primary is linux and new, 2nd drive is also full install with important files. I just need help in mounting or being able to get info from it so that i can format as storage. All that it mounted at this point is /boot, i need rest of drive contents please help.
Need some more info.
What linux distribution are you running and what distribution is on the 2nd drive?
Do you know how the 2nd drive is partitioned?
Post the output of the command
fdisk -l (must be root or use sudo and that is a small L)
If the second drive is just one partition you could mount it somewhere. This also assumes your distro uses sd* for the hard disks and that you have root access to the system. I will concur with the above statement that additional information would be helpfull in giving you a better answer.
Code:
user@system $ mkdir /mnt/sdb1
user@system $ mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1
user@system $ cd /mnt/sdb1
I do not think it is that simple. I assumed based on one your previous posts that the data probably resides on a LVM partition. The steps to mount the 2nd drive depends on what distribution is currently running and if it includes LVM support. Here are the basic steps
lvm vgchange -a y
lvm lvs (this just lists the volume name, change the mount command to reflect if different)
mkdir /media/drive2
mount /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /media/drive2 (volume name should match above)
If the currently running distribution like fedora is also using a LVM then you might have problems if the volumes have the same name.
Okay so both drives have fedora 10 distro, 2nd drive was my primary but had bad sectors making it unreadable in boot, i want to be able to just get info off then format the disk. currently i have an icon on my desktop that is labeled "/boot" i believe its reading the drive just not sure
[root@localhost sdb1]# mkdir /mnt/sdb2
[root@localhost sdb1]# mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt/sdb2
mount: unknown filesystem type 'lvm2pv'
[root@localhost sdb1]#
Indeed it looks like this is a lvm partition and mount will not be able to auto mount it. I do not have experience with LVM but michaelk posted some usefull info above.
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