mount slave drive

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 11:42:29AM -0400, Chris Aitken wrote:
> Okay, I installed it with yum. I ran it:
> 
> [root at p733 chris]# gpart /dev/sdb
> 
> Begin scan...
> Possible partition(DOS FAT), size(2999mb), offset(6540mb)
> End scan.
> 
> Checking partitions...
> 
> * Warning: partition(DOS or Windows 95 with 32 bit FAT, LBA) ends beyond 
> disk end.
> Partition(DOS or Windows 95 with 32 bit FAT, LBA): invalid primary
> Ok.
> 
> Guessed primary partition table:
> Primary partition(1)
>   type: 000(0x00)(unused)
>   size: 0mb #s(0) s(0-0)
>   chs:  (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)d (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)r
> 
> Primary partition(2)
>   type: 000(0x00)(unused)
>   size: 0mb #s(0) s(0-0)
>   chs:  (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)d (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)r
> 
> Primary partition(3)
>   type: 000(0x00)(unused)
>   size: 0mb #s(0) s(0-0)
>   chs:  (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)d (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)r
> 
> Primary partition(4)
>   type: 000(0x00)(unused)
>   size: 0mb #s(0) s(0-0)
>   chs:  (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)d (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)r
> 
> I don't see any evidence of anything on this hard drive...

Well, do you remember what filesystem you used?  How many partitions?
Was it using LVM or raid or anything else like that?  There are some
filesystems gpart doesn't detect so if you used one of those it has no
chance of finding them.

Did you move the drive from one machine to another or is it still in the
same system?  Same drive controller?

What is the output of fdisk -l /dev/sdb?

What about:
dd if=/dev/sdb of=/tmp/sdb.scan bs=512 count=100 skip=63;file /tmp/sdb.scan

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