Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3566 mails)

[Fergus Wilde <fwilde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 30 April 2007 02:54, Pueblo Native wrote:
> Here's a problem one of my friends sent me, his words.
>
> i had a fedora 2 box crap out so i took the HD out and put it in a USB
> enclosure to plug into another fedora 2 box.
>
> i mounted the drive but the only options i see when i LS it is:
> config-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl
> grub
> initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl
> kernal.h
> lost+found
> System.map-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl
> vmlinux-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl
> vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl

I think he has in fact mounted only one partition on the drive, probably 
whichever one he mounted as /boot. If the USB mounted damaged disk were to 
be /dev/sd1, for example, he should have a go at mount and 
listing /dev/sd1b, /dev/sd1c, etc., until he finds the one with his data or 
other vital matter on it. If it were me, I'd then copy the data safely off, 
check to make good and sure that I'd *really* got all the vital data off, and 
then start again with a fresh install on that 'crapped out' disk. That's if I 
had reason to believe the crapping out to be software rather than hardware 
related. If the disk is knackered then he would be throwing good time after 
bad by doing anything other than discarding it.
HTH
Fergus

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