[HLUG] HD problem

[Andrew Hodgson]

Hi,

Which distro?  You need to mount the drive - first find out the drive assignment - probably /dev/hdb? (where ? represents the partition).  You can run fdisk to check this by printing the partition table.  There may be a boot partition and a swap partition before the root (/) partition.

Once you know the partition you want to access on the second disk, use:

Mkdir -p /mnt/disk2
Mount /dev/hdb3 /mnt/disk2

(as an example).

Also, what was the actual error you got, and where did you get it?  Look at /var/log/messages and /var/log/dmesg on the failed (?) disk.  Also check out fsck on the failed disk, remember to ensure you run the correct version for your filesystem.

Another option is that if you have a USB drive enclosure and a modern distro, it should automount if you plug it into the USB port.

Thanks.
Andrew.

-----Original Message-----
From: Graham Cole [mailto:grahamcole at nerdshack.com] 
Sent: 15 June 2007 16:50
To: herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: [HLUG] HD problem

Hi everyone
I had a warning pop up to say my hard disk drive is going to fail so I
should back up all files. Now I'm scared of opening the system again and
I've installed another disk in the same box and I have a parallel Linux
system running on that. Now I want to access files on the suspect disk
on which I have put the jumper to slave position (to be exact, no jumper
connecting). My BIOS makes out this is a second master rather than
primary slave and I don't know how to access files from my primary
system. Can you help me? Do I need to change the BIOS somehow?
Graham



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