On 9 Oct 2003, D.V. Rogers wrote: > I am trying to retrieve data of a 30gb drive which was running RH8.0. > The motherboard had failed and now trying to mount this drive under SuSe > 7.0. > > The drive is installed and appears to be working OK as I can see it > under disk management running W2k (dual boot with SuSe) > > /etc/fstab indicates that; > > My windows partition is in /dev/hda1 > /boot is /dev/hda5 > swap is /dev/hda6 > / is hda6 > > Can somebody please point me in the direction of how I can mount this > 30gb drive I need to get data off? > > And how do I find the drive to know what its mount point is?
It depends where in the IDE chain you've plugged the drive in. Usual drive definitions are as follows Primary Master - HDA Primary Slave - HDB Secondary Master - HDC Secondary Slave - HDD Now, assuming you've plugged your 30 gig disk into the Primary slave position, it'll become HDB. To find out the partition list, simply run fdisk fdisk /dev/hdb And print the partition list. Or you could just try mounting random partitions to see what happens mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/temp If you get an error message, then the chances are good hdb1 doesn't exist. :-) DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
