Mounting old linux harddisk as slave under FC3?

[Matt Considine]

Outstanding!  Thank you very much.  I am embarrassed that
I got the label switch figured out but not these steps.  So
I apologize for taking up the bandwidth.

Regards,
Matt

M.Clasen wrote:
> hi there,
> 
> from your message i understand, that u like to get a new HD with a new
> FC3 installation and like to get the old data accessed, i.e. for
> mailimport or other things...
> 
> If so, its easy to mount the old as passive slave drive. Do this:
> 
> - mkdir i.e. /oldhd or better /mnt/oldhd
> -mkdir /mnt/oldhd/boot and /mnt/oldhd/root
> - set the jumper of the old HD to slave
> - plug the old HD to Primary or Secondary Slave IDE port
> 
> after a new start you can mount the hd (wich should have at least 3
> partitions on it) in the appropriate directories as
> mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/boot, mount /dev/hdb2 /mnt/root
> 
> for permanent usage, you can add the mount-entries to /etc/fstab, so the
> disc is mountet at startup.
> 
> now you can use it as passive datastorage, not bound to your system.
> 
> It is a nice way, to backup the old data to the new HD, format the old
> HD as 1 patition only and mount the old HD as a new partition of your
> new HD, i.e. /usr2 or /home or /tmp, anything, what makes sense :) with
> this way, you got the unused swapspace and /boot-space of the old HD
> back for your usage.
> 
> 
> Am Samstag, den 12.02.2005, 04:48 -0500 schrieb Matt Considine:
> 
>>Hi,
>>I've got FC3 running (relatively) smoothly on an 8G
>>harddisk.  I would like to take the harddisk it replaced
>>and set it up as the slave, with the idea of trying to
>>retrieve old email, etc.
>>
> 
> retrieving old email - this sounds a bit hard for me, you mean, dont
> loose the old mails already received in the past and be possible, to
> import it in your new installed emailprogramm ?
> 
> 
>>The correct jumpers have been set and I used "e2label" to
>>change the old label of "/boot" to "/oldboot" to avoid
>>a conflict with FC3.
>>
> 
> you want active use the new and old Hd in your System ?
> im sorry, i do not know enought about this disk labeling, but what i
> know, tells me, i do not really need it, if i know my HDs and slots they
> are connected.
> Disk labeling (correct me if im fail) is very nice for Systems with i.e.
> SCSI-Raid or many HDs with many partitions or hardly distributet
> Filesystems, so you can easy mount a Label instead of a device.
> Btw. a quickshot to goolge about Disklabeling was not so really
> informational, so i like to ask for the pool with proper information on
> that topic ?!
> 
> 
>>While it shows up under the Hardware Browser as /hdb1 and
>>/hdb2, it does not show up under the Disk Management
>>applet for mounting.
>>
> 
> i think you got no entries in /etc/fstab 
> 
> 
>>Can someone describe or point me to a description of what
>>I need to do to try to get my old partitions automatically
>>mounted?  I checked the archives and Google, but most of
>>what I find relates to setting up a new disk and using
>>fdisk/DiskDruid/etc.
>>
> 
> your disk is already setup, as you said, as a nice runnin FC3 on a 8 MB,
> with i think a hda1, hda2, hda3, ya ?
> If you plug the HD to the Primary Slave IDE port, the partitiones become
> hdb1, hdb2, hdb3 
> 
> so fstab entries go from 
> 
> LABEL=/	    	/	ext3	defaults	1 1
> LABEL=/boot	/boot	ext3	defaults    1 2
> ...
> 
> to
> 
> #new HD
> /dev/hda1	/boot	ext3	defaults	1 1
> /dev/hda2	/	ext3	defaults	1 2
> ...
> #old HD
> /dev/hdb1	/mnt/oldhd/boot	  ext3   defaults 0 0
> /dev/hdb2	/mnt/oldhd/root   ext3   defaults 0 0 	
> ...
> 
> hope this helps =)
> 
> Michael
> 
> 
> 
>>Thanks in advance,
>>Matt
>>