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Problem mounting Hard Drive

Hi

Just a quick question on mounting a Hard drive on my server

(Mother board crashed and now have new server with new mother board and drive... and the server people have attached the original drive so I can get my data off it)

I run a Debian system

I have run a multitude of commands to try find what filesystem the hard drive is using

I get an error with this command

Code:

mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb /oldhd

Says not an ext3 FS so tried a few more and still nothing

How do I find out what it is?

I have tried this

Code:

fdisk -l

and got this result

Code:

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Disk identifier: 0x000476b6



  Device Boot      Start        End      Blocks  Id  System

/dev/sda1  *          1      60471  485733276  83  Linux

/dev/sda2          60472      60801    2650725    5  Extended

/dev/sda5          60472      60801    2650693+  82  Linux swap / Solaris



Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Disk identifier: 0x000d38b1



  Device Boot      Start        End      Blocks  Id  System

/dev/sdb1  *          1      60471  485733276  83  Linux

/dev/sdb2          60472      60801    2650725    5  Extended

/dev/sdb5          60472      60801    2650693+  82  Linux swap / Solaris

I was expecting another column with filesystem

any help is appreciated

GMC

Nope, you got all the columns - The "Id" and "System" columns show you what file system is apparently on the partition.

I figure your problem is that you're mistakenly trying to mount the entire drive, rather than mounting one or more partitions of the drive. Try:

Code:

mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb1 /oldhd

..and see what that produces..

Quote:

Originally Posted by GrapefruiTgirl (Post 4111448)

Code:

mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb1 /oldhd

..and see what that produces..

I am sure I tried that

Let me go do it again... just in case

BRB

Quote:

Originally Posted by GMCbris (Post 4111449)

I am sure I tried that

Let me go do it again... just in case

BRB

Oh no... how embarrassing

Ahem....

thanks!!!

Worked as expected

*logging off ashamed of ones self*

No problem :) we all overlook the obvious sometimes!

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