Would like to mount old Fedora boot drive as second hard drive.

grndplane · #1 29th January 2006, 04:42 PM

I thought I was really winning with Fedora, so I reformated my old Windows drive with ext2 and started copying my mp3's to it. Only I wasn't, I actually copied them (some how) back to my first hard drive(boot drive) and I hosed it. The next time I tried to reboot it came up with an error and wouldn't let me get to it. What to do. I swapped the master/slave jumpers on my hard drives and installed Fedora to the drive I was going to use for mp3's. The install is working good, but I can't seem to be able to mount the old drive so I can recover the data. When I try all I see is the grub files and system config files. Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks for your help.

jim · #2 29th January 2006, 04:49 PM

what does fdisk -l say ??

grndplane · #3 29th January 2006, 04:51 PM

Here it is. Thanks for helping.

Disk /dev/hda: 30.0 GB, 30020272128 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3649 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 14 3649 29206170 8e Linux LVM

Disk /dev/hdb: 15.3 GB, 15382241280 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1870 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hdb2 14 1870 14916352+ 8e Linux LVM

jim · #4 29th January 2006, 04:57 PM

try as root

mkdir /media/oldlinux

mount /dev/hdb2 -t ext3 /media/oldlinux

grndplane · #5 29th January 2006, 04:58 PM

Ok I tried it. This what I get.

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb2,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

grndplane · #6 29th January 2006, 05:51 PM

Is this terminal or can it be solved? Thanks

jim · #7 29th January 2006, 05:58 PM

well if the filesystem type is not ext3 then you need to find out what type it is...

tashirosgt · #8 29th January 2006, 06:10 PM

I keep anticipating having to mount an old Linux drive as a secondary disk. I haven't yet, but one thing that I don't completely understand is the logical volumes. If the old Linux drive is Logical Volume Group 0, Logical Volume 1 and the new Linux drive is the same thing, then does this cause a problem in mounting the old one?

grndplane · #9 29th January 2006, 06:17 PM

I tried to mount with both ext3 and ext2. I keep getting the same responce as before. I can't even reformat this drive because it want mount.

jim · #10 29th January 2006, 06:18 PM

Not a fan of logical volumes

hence i partition my own drives with a thought out plan

jim · #11 29th January 2006, 06:19 PM

you have qtparted installed ?

yum install qtparted

see if it sees the drive

grndplane · #12 29th January 2006, 06:22 PM

I am installing qtparted now. I'll let you know what I see in a while. Again thanks for all your help.

grndplane · #13 29th January 2006, 06:26 PM

It shows both hda2 and hdb2 file types as unknow. My hda2 works fine.

jim · #14 29th January 2006, 06:29 PM

Logical volumes

in other words your SOL

download dariks boot n nuke and wipe the drive

grndplane · #15 29th January 2006, 06:33 PM

What if I use your qtparted to kill hdb1 and set hdb2 as active? Yes I am guessing :-)