mount slave drive

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 04:48:39PM -0400, Chris Aitken wrote:
> 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.
> gparted?

No.  gpart.

# apt-cache show gpart
Package: gpart
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 112
Maintainer: David Coe <davidc-8fiUuRrzOP0dnm+yROfE0A at public.gmane.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 0.1h-4.1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6)
Filename: pool/main/g/gpart/gpart_0.1h-4.1_i386.deb
Size: 36310
MD5sum: 4690231eda349138a7df012dad5a3bec
SHA1: 270964995287fda388385653c4c0a84594f9b800
SHA256: 43ad71039dba3a0c8ce003a30a81b37cfa85cda9a835b8a81b27fe7238b15681
Description: Guess PC disk partition table, find lost partitions
 Gpart is a tool which tries to guess the primary partition table of a
 PC-type disk in case the primary partition table in sector 0 is
 damaged, incorrect or deleted.
 .
 It is also good at finding and listing the types, locations, and
 sizes of inadvertently-deleted partitions, both primary and logical.
 It gives you the information you need to manually re-create them
 (using fdisk, cfdisk, sfdisk, etc.).
 .
 The guessed table can also be written to a file or (if you firmly
 believe the guessed table is entirely correct) directly to a disk
 device.
 .
 Supported (guessable) filesystem or partition types:
 .
  * BeOS filesystem type.
  * FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD disklabel sub-partitioning
    scheme used on Intel platforms.
  * Linux second extended filesystem.
  * MS-DOS FAT12/16/32 "filesystems".
  * IBM OS/2 High Performance filesystem.
  * Linux LVM physical volumes (LVM by Heinz Mauelshagen).
  * Linux swap partitions (versions 0 and 1).
  * The Minix operating system filesystem type.
  * MS Windows NT/2000 filesystem.
  * QNX 4.x filesystem.
  * The Reiser filesystem (version 3.5.X, X > 11).
  * Sun Solaris on Intel platforms uses a sub-partitioning
    scheme on PC hard disks similar to the BSD disklabels.
  * Silicon Graphics' journalling filesystem for Linux.
 .
 Other types may be added relatively easily, as separately compiled modules.
Tag: admin::boot, admin::recovery, hardware::storage, interface::commandline, role::program, scope::application, x11::terminal

For example: http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/
if your distribution is failing to provide a package.

> It shows /dev/sdb as having Partition unallocated, FIlesystem 
> unallocated, Size 9.32 GBand no entries for Used, Unused and Flags.
> 
> I don't suppose I could use that comfortable gui tool to make it ext3 
> and then the data will magically appear in it?

It might but I wouldn't want to try it.  It would probably destroy any
chances of recovery instead.


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