mount slave drive

[Chris Aitken]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 10:28:31AM -0400, Chris Aitken wrote:
>   
>> Should I worry that /dev/hdb1 (the partition I'm trying to mount) has a 
>> Start and End of 1, and that System is Empty?:
>>     
>
> Yes.  That looks VERY wrong.  Maybe gpart can search for the real
> partitions and give you what the partition table should be.  Or maybe
> the disk is wrong a machine using EFI partitions, or microsoft's dynamic
> volumes.
>
>   
>> [root at p733 chris]# /sbin/fdisk -l
>>
>> Disk /dev/sda: 20.5 GB, 20547841536 bytes
>> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2498 cylinders
>> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>>
>>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>> /dev/sda1   *           1         608     4876168+   b  W95 FAT32
>> Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
>> /dev/sda2             609         620       96390   83  Linux
>> /dev/sda3             621        2498    15085035   8e  Linux LVM
>>
>> Disk /dev/sdb: 10.0 GB, 10005037056 bytes
>> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1216 cylinders
>> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>>
>>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>> /dev/sdb1   *           1           1           0    0  Empty
>> Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
>> [root at p733 chris]#
>>     
>
> What about 'cat /proc/partitions'?
>   
I guess that looks more hopeful?:

[root at p733 chris]# cat /proc/partitions
major minor  #blocks  name

   8     0   20066251 sda
   8     1    4876168 sda1
   8     2      96390 sda2
   8     3   15085035 sda3
   8    16    9770544 sdb
 253     0   14254080 dm-0
 253     1     786432 dm-1

Chris
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