Mounting A Hard Drive

[B12Org]

I need to mount the old hard drive on my server (it crashed and the datacenter put on a new one), but I can not get it to work. I have tried:

mount /dev/hdc2 /mnt/old/
mount ext3 /dev/hdc2 /mnt/old/

Nothing seems to work.

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[PWSowner]

Maybe
mount -t ext3 /dev/hdc2 /mnt/old
if hdc2 is the partition you want and /mnt/old is the directory on that partition.

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[B12Org]

Tried that one already also.

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[PWSowner]

What does
fdisk -l /dev/hdc
give you?

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[B12Org]

bash: fdisk: command not found

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[PWSowner]

That's unusual. I think I read somewhere that some systems use a different command, but I don't remember what it was. All that command was for is to give you a list of partitions.

Does your server provider charge you if you ask them to mount the drive?

Maybe this link will help. It's where I first started figuring out how to do partitioning and mounting.

From what I understand, the only way
mount -t ext3 /dev/hdc2 /mnt/old
won't work is if either the partition is not hdc2, (the 2nd primary partition), or the directory is not /mnt/old. That line is saying to mount the directory "mnt/old" to the 2nd primary partition.

My guess is it's probably not the correct directory name.

Does WHM tell you there is a drive to be mounted?

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[B12Org]

Yes, it does, but whm wants me to format it, and I need the data.

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[PWSowner]

I would ask your provider for the necessary data. They can't charge for that.

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[B12Org]

ok, Well I supose it couldnt hurt to ask, and they cant charge me to ask I guess.

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[WillyMore]

I used this guy for my cpanel from rackshack. Then after I used the data on it I used whm to format and mount. Then whm shows it right.

cd /
mkdir backup
mount /dev/hdc1 backup
cd /backup
ls

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[binbash]

Originally posted by B12Org
bash: fdisk: command not found

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fdisk not in path?

try
/sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hdc


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