[Tfug] Mount disk from old system

[Jude Nelson]

What's dmesg show?

On 1/22/08, Jim Secan <jim at nwra.com> wrote:
> Now that my server is a brick (see OT thread) I'm wanting to mount the HD
> that was in the old server in the one that's to be my new server.  First
> attempt was to use one of those nice gizmos that allows you to hook a bare
> naked SATA drive up to a computer via a USB connection.  The drive shows
> up, but I can only mount the first (/boot) partition.  When I try to mount
> the main partition it won't take (mount complains of wrong fs type, bad
> option, bad superblock, or too many mounted filesystems).  I unmounted the
> /boot partition and used mount to remount it with no problems, so there's
> something about that second partition that's a problem.
>
> I suspect the problem might be that this disk was the primary volume for
> another system.  My next attempt will be to mount it physically inside the
> case of the new system to go around the USB software, but I don't know if
> that's going to make any difference.  Anyone ever do this before
> (successfully preferred!).
>
> Jim
>
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