Data Recovery

Meabert · 08-12-2007, 03:48 AM

I just built an FC7 box, pulled my FC6 HD out of my old box, its in my new one now. Running as a secondary HD, running FC7 off another drive. how do I mount it or whatever i need to do to see it?

wayno · 08-12-2007, 05:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Meabert

I just built an FC7 box, pulled my FC6 HD out of my old box, its in my new one now. Running as a secondary HD, running FC7 off another drive. how do I mount it or whatever i need to do to see it?

First create a mount point something like 'mkdir /mnt/fc6' should do it. Then find out what the FC6 disk is called 'fdisk -l'. Once you know the device name, 'mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/fc6', substituting /dev/sdb1 for your FC6 disk's device.

Job done!

syg00 · 08-12-2007, 05:50 AM

You probably can't - easily.
I'd be prepared to bet they are both LVM, and use the same VG name.
You'll have to use something like Knoppix to rename the old VG so it can be mounted - has been covered here; hit the search button.

The joys of distros that do everything for you.

lord-fu · 08-13-2007, 11:50 AM

Yep you cant without doing the above. Tried twice before, this is one of my biggest gripes about FC and LVM. Actually I tried this on FC6, may be different on 7.

Meabert · 08-13-2007, 03:12 PM

my bootloader on my FC6 drive is gone, can i get it back?

syg00 · 08-13-2007, 08:11 PM

Perhaps you might enlighten us as to how you came to that conclusion.
Specific details will help get an answer.

jay73 · 08-13-2007, 09:08 PM

You just need to add fc6 to the newer GRUB. Try mounting your older boot directory and copy the relevant lines from its menu.lst to your fc7 menu.lst (make sure that your put them after the fc7 entries).