Hi,

I installed ubuntu on one of my old hard drives, but decided I wanted to upgrade it a little, bought a new hard drive, reinstalled it, and now I'm trying to copy all my documents over to my new hard drive.

I set my old hard drive to Slave, and plugged it into my computer, with my new hard drive (set as master) booting up.

I've looked in every folder I can find in '/' that I think could have my second hard drive listed, and I can't find it anywhere.

I've read in other forums while I looked through google for help with this, that they're named hda, hdb, hdc, and so on. So I searched for hda and hdb (using the search tool) and still can't find it.

I wondered if anyone could tell me an easy way to view my second hard drive, and copy the documents over.


Many Thanks in Advance

Have you actually mounted the drive? Post the output of "fdisk -l" (that's a lowercase L, not a 1 and fdisk will probably need to be run as root).

tony@beng:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Password:

Disk /dev/hda: 300.0 GB, 300069052416 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 36481 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 36198 290760403+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 36199 36481 2273197+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 36199 36481 2273166 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/hdb: 82.3 GB, 82348277760 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10011 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 9729 78148161 83 Linux
/dev/hdb2 9730 10011 2265165 5 Extended
/dev/hdb5 9730 10011 2265133+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
tony@beng:~$



Thats my entire output from it.

It looks like you want to mount /dev/hdb1. Make a directory to mount your drive, with mkdir, e.g. "mkdir /mnt/old" (you may need to use sudo, depending on where you're trying to create the directory). Then, mount the device with "sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/old" (replacing "/mnt/old" with whatever directory you've chosen). You should now be able to cd into that directory and access the files.

I can!

Thanks a lot for the help! I'm writing that down for the next time I have a problem with this, no doubt I will


Again, Thanks a lot for the help!

No problem.