craigni wrote:
Hi Gurus, I have a dual boot system with Fedora 7 on one drive and
Fedora 8 on another. I'd like the Fedora 8 system to access the data on the Fedora 7
system. Fedora 8 sees 7 as sdc.
If I enter:
$ sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sdc1 /mnt/test
$ ls /mnt/test
config-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 initrd-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.img System.map-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7
vmlinuz-2.6.22.9-91.fc7
config-2.6.22.9-91.fc7 initrd-2.6.22.9-91.fc7.img System.map-2.6.22.9-91.fc7
grub lost+found vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7
but I can't access the data on the filesystem from there. If I enter:
$ sudo umount /mnt/test
$ sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sdc2 /mnt/test
I get:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc2,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
Is it possible to access the data on the F7 system from booted F8? If so, how?
Many TIA
Craig
The problem is probably that sdc2 is an LVM volume, os it is a
little harder to mount. Probably the easiest way is to look at
/etc/fstab on F7, and copy the entry for /, changing / to match the
desired mount point.For example, if fstab has:
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1
you would want to do something like:
mount /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /mnt/test.
The reason you can mount /boot is because it is not an LVM volume,
but is a standard ext2/3 file system. If you do not want to boot F7
to get the information, you should also be able to get it when you
have sc1 mounted by looking at /mnt/test/grub/grub.conf and looking
at the root= line.
Mikkel
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