How can I mount my old fedora core 1 hard disk

Bjorkli · 08-12-2004, 02:52 AM

I had Fedora Core 1 installed on a system with 2 hard disks. One disk crashed though (totally, no chance of getting anything back). Aparently was /home / /sbin /bin etc on the disk that stayed healty. But /usr was on the crashed disk, so that Fedora refused to boot properly after that.

Now I have bought a new hard disk, and re-installed Fedora Core 1 on it. But I cannot access the old healthy hard disk anymore (without formating it and loose all data on it). I have tried the following:

If I use webmin to try to mount it again, I get following error:

Failed to save mount: Mount failed :

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1,
or to many mounted file systems

So I went back to linuxquestions, read some articles about mounting without getting wiser, and found out that the reason I can't mount is that I cannot have 2 linux system disks at the same time or something. Also that fdisk -l will tell a lot about the system, so I have display it below. Now. My new disk is the 80 GB one, that I boot off now. The old working disk where I used to have Fedora Core 1 installed is the 41.1 GB disk. It is /dev/hda1 which I cannot mount.

So. Anyone got an idea how I can copy the data from /dev/hda1 (the stuff that is in the /home directory mostly, like emails) to the new disk (/dev/hdd2).

Quote:

[root@linux root]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hdd: 80.0 GB, 80060424192 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9733 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdd1 * 521 9733 74003422+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdd2 1 520 4176868+ 82 Linux swap

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Disk /dev/hda: 41.1 GB, 41110142976 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4998 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 4489 36057861 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 4490 4998 4088542+ 83 Linux

Hope any can help

Cheers...

linmix · 08-12-2004, 04:24 AM

Have you tried the mount command forma shell?

first make a directory to mount in

$mkdir /mount/oldFC1

then issue the command

$ mount -t ext3 /dev/hda1 /mnt/oldFC1

(change filesystem if necessary)

Bjorkli · 08-12-2004, 05:55 AM

Got following error:

Code:

[root@linux /]# mkdir /mnt/oldFC1
[root@linux /]# mount -t ext3 /dev/hda1 /mnt/oldFC1
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1,
       or too many mounted file systems

Same error as webmin gave more or less... I am certain I used ext3 when I installed Linux both now and then... Now what...

Bjorkli · 08-12-2004, 06:39 AM

Ups. Read a bit further on, and saw that someone had used the mke2fs -j /dev/hda1 command with luck, so I tried it too. Worked

, but now all my data on the old hard disk is erased

... Hmm. How to break this to the users...

Ah well. I am sure they did backup...

Code:

[root@linux root]# mke2fs -j /dev/hda1
mke2fs 1.34 (25-Jul-2003)
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=4096 (log=2)
Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
4513152 inodes, 9014465 blocks
450723 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=0
276 block groups
32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
16352 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
        32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,
        4096000, 7962624

Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (8192 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done

This filesystem will be automatically checked every 39 mounts or
180 days, whichever comes first.  Use tune2fs -c or -i to override.