From: "Jake McHenry" <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> I had the harddrive in the machine, not being used. So I copied the
> files that I wanted (config files, tar files, etc) onto the harddrive
> and put it in the other machine. Now I can't access it.
>
> I want to mount it just like a cdrom, etc.. But it won't let me.
>
> The info I got from parted was:
>
> Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags
> 1 0.031 194474.355 primary linux-swap
>
> I have no idea in hell how it became a swap partition, it wasn't this
> after noon.....
>
> Anything I can do?
Nothing easy. I have recovered by knowing something of the RedHat Linux
directory structure and the way I had set it all up before hand, or at
least remembering what partitions I had made by name if not /dev/what.
I used the install process. I got it far enough that a control-alt-F1
showed the shell prompt.
"fdisk -l /dev/hda" showed me the raw partitions and their sizes. It also
gave me a leg up because I knew two of the partition devices without any
work. "/dev/hda" is always "/boot", since I got into the habit of using
a separate boot partition. And the swap partition is identified as being
a "swap" partition instead of a Linux E2FS partition. From there I simply
mounted the partitions one at a time to /mnt and looked at their top
level directories. That allowed me to identify /, /var, /usr, /home,
/usr/local, and so forth. I took notes and used that to mount / and
rebuild the /etc/fstab file. From there it was an easy reboot.
Of course, I believe fdisk is so deprecated these days it may not be
present anymore. (It was too effective until it was emasculated to only
allow 16 partitions.)
{^_^}
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