mount my hard drive from a livecd, need answer fast

003 · 06-27-2006, 01:14 PM

Does anybody know how I can mount my hard drive which has a broken installation of suse 10.1 from my suse 10.1 livecd? I also have a livecd of mepis. I really need to get some files off the hard drive before I wipe it, please help me asap. I think it is either /dev/sda2 or /dev/sda3. I have not modified the fstab file, nor would Ihave the slightest idea of what to do. Please help me.

pljvaldez · 06-27-2006, 01:19 PM

Type fdisk -l (that's L not 1) and figure out which partition is the right one.

Then as root mkdir /mnt/broken. Then mount -t ext3 -o ro /dev/sda2 /mnt/broken. Be sure to change the -t option to whatever filesystem you're using, and change /dev/sda2 to the right partition. The -o ro means "option read-only". You can see more options with man mount

Then you can just cd /mnt/broken or use Konqueror or whatever to go browse the directory...

003 · 06-27-2006, 01:22 PM

Thanks, I am not sure what the filesystem is, it's whatever suse 10.1 defaults to. Do you know what that is?

pljvaldez · 06-27-2006, 03:17 PM

It should tell you when you do the fdisk command above. Most likely it is ext3. Although there are a slew of other filesystems too (reiserfs, ext2, jfs, xfs, etc).