mount slave drive

[Chris Aitken]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:

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> Well, do you remember what filesystem you used? 
If I chose the filesystem it would have been ext3. Sometimes they are 
auto-assigned Vol-something (I don't understand that system).
>  How many partitions?
>   
one
> Was it using LVM or raid or anything else like that?  
I'm not familiar with LVM (I choose No whenever offered that) and 
certainly it's not RAID.
> There are some
> filesystems gpart doesn't detect so if you used one of those it has no
> chance of finding them.
>   
I didn't choose anything exotic.
> Did you move the drive from one machine to another or is it still in the
> same system?  Same drive controller?
>   
It's still on IDE 1 as slave (I checked that it's still jumpered to slave).
> What is the output of fdisk -l /dev/sdb?
>   
[root at p733 chris]# /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sdb

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.

> What about:
> dd if=/dev/sdb of=/tmp/sdb.scan bs=512 count=100 skip=63;file /tmp/sdb.scan
>   
[root at p733 chris]# dd if=/dev/sdb of=/tmp/sdb.scan bs=512 count=100 
skip=63;file /tmp/sdb.scan
100+0 records in
100+0 records out
51200 bytes (51 kB) copied, 0.0327913 s, 1.6 MB/s
/tmp/sdb.scan: data

Chris
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> Len Sorensen
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