Reading from Hard Disk

bootneck · 10-16-2010, 04:33 AM

Hi,

I'm a pensioner working on a very tight budget.

My old PC recently gave up the ghost and having got second machine need to extract information from the original machines HD. Both the old and replacement machines run (or ran) on FC12.

If I install the old PC's HD into the replacement machine as a second HD will I be able to get at and read the files it holds?.

ArisBoch · 10-16-2010, 05:05 AM

You should have no problem retrieving your data from the old hard drive. Just set it as slave and mount it in FC12.

Use sudo fdisk -l to see what device it is, then just make a directory and mount it. EG: mkdir /media/slave_drive then: mount -t (filesystem) /dev/(device) /media/slave_drive

michaelk · 10-16-2010, 06:30 AM

I assume you installed Fedora using the defaults which means the disks are formatted with a LVM partition. You can verify by via the GUI LVM manager or by examining the output of the console command fdisk command:
fdisk -l (That is a small L and you must be root)

If you are using LVM then it is a little more complicated to mount the old drive then a regular partition as suggested in the previous post. As indicated in the link you will need to change the volume group name before it can be mounted on your new computer.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JohnBabich/Mount_LVM

bootneck · 10-17-2010, 10:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by michaelk

I assume you installed Fedora using the defaults which means the disks are formatted with a LVM partition. You can verify by via the GUI LVM manager or by examining the output of the console command fdisk command:
fdisk -l (That is a small L and you must be root)

If you are using LVM then it is a little more complicated to mount the old drive then a regular partition as suggested in the previous post. As indicated in the link you will need to change the volume group name before it can be mounted on your new computer.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JohnBabich/Mount_LVM

Many thanks to both for your help.