Allegedly, on or about 04 November 2012, Alan Feuerbacher sent: > Here I'm trying to mount the old system: > ########### > [root@alan-fedora alan]# mount /dev/sdc /mnt/fedora32 > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc, > missing codepage or helper program, or other error > In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try > dmesg | tail or so > > [root@alan-fedora alan]# mount -t auto /dev/sdc /mnt/fedora32 Firstly, it was already doing "auto," as far as I'm aware, so that's pretty much redundant. What's really missing is *which* partition to try and mount on sdc. > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sdc1 * 2048 206847 102400 83 Linux > /dev/sdc2 1026048 2930276351 1464625152 8e Linux LVM The small sdc1 is, most likely, a boot partition, which you can ignore. You want to be trying to mount sdc2. However, that's LVM, not a plain partition, and I'm fairly certain that you want to use the LVM tools to mount it. And, I'm very certain that you're going to have problems if it uses the same volume names as your new drive that you're running from. The simplest solution will probably be to rename your old volumes before you attempt to mount them. So, look into managing LVM volumes, then get back to the list when you get stuck again. (It's ages since I've tried anything with LVM, it's probably changed since then, and I've probably forgotten what I did.) Future hint: Next time you create LVM volumes and partitions, put something unique into their names. A date, a name, or a number... But if you never intend to try and span across several discs, which brings about its own set of hazards (one failure on any disc, and all of them becomes wrecked), I'd advise to completely avoid LVM on your next installation. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.6.3-1.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Oct 22 15:32:35 UTC 2012 x86_64 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
