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[Pueblo Native <pueblonative@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Fergus Wilde wrote:
> 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
>
>   

Thanks for the advice.  Usually the USB drives I see are FAT, so I
didn't even think of it as having more than one partition.

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