Mounting a preformated drive between distro's

Visiter · 06-08-2006, 11:59 AM

I have never tried to do this before. I am mounting a drive [on slackware] that is already formatted, and is the primary drive from a fedora box that blowed up. The drive is fine, and is an ext3 partition. Though, when I boot my good Slackware box, and mount the drive then go into the directory - all i see are a few folders and files such as: grub/ lost+found/ System.map-2-6... cpnfig.. etcetra

I just want to peel off old data from that drive. Then I would feel find formatting it. Is the approach that I am taking sensible, seeing as there is no way to boot from the Fedora HDD.

Thank you

Visiter

Using Slackware 10.2 2.4 kernel (standard install)
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Basically. Drive ripped out of a fedora box. I need to get info off while having the drive hooked into new Slackware box. Slack has box mounted on hdb1, but the directory structure just shows [ grub/ ] [ lostand found/] [ System.map.2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 ] [ config-System.map.2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 ] [initrd-System.map.2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.img] vmlinuz-System.map.2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 ]

I guess I am wondering where they file structure is?

unSpawn · 06-08-2006, 03:34 PM

Looking at your file listing you probably only mounted the /boot partition.
Here's some code that might help you:

Code:

fdisk -l|grep /dev/hdb..*83..*Linux$|awk '{print $1}'|while read p; do p=${p:5:6}
if [ ! -d "/mnt/rescue_${p}" ]; then mkdir "/mnt/rescue_${p}"; fi
mount "/dev/$p" -t auto "/mnt/rescue_${p}" -o ro; done

What this does is examine /dev/hdb for Linux ext* partitions, makes a recognisable named mountpoint
and mount the partition read-only for perusal. When rescueing data always mount read-only.

HTH

Visiter · 06-12-2006, 09:42 AM

After succesfully running the names script, the boot sector was once again mounted in rescue_hdb#1. No other directories were available. I can see the directories if I boot from the fedora rescue disk though, so the allocation table should still be in tact.

Visiter