[Tfug] Mount disk from old system

[Jim Secan]

I'll have to try this tomorrow.  I'm home now, consulting with a glass of
attitude adjuster.  Thanks.
Jim

Jude Nelson wrote:
> 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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