Old Hard Drive

Jim Douglas jdz99 at hotmail.com
Sat Sep 16 15:06:07 UTC 2006


>From: "Amadeus W. M." <amadeus84 at verizon.net>
>Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>To: fedora-list at redhat.com
>Subject: Re: Old Hard Drive
>Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 10:47:12 -0400
>
>On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 13:58:55 +0000, Jim Douglas wrote:
>
> > I have an FC4 install on an old hard drive that has all my config 
>setting on
> > it,
> >
> > My new FC5 install on a new hard drive complete.
> >
> > How can I mount the old hard drive so I can copy the settings and 
>eventually
> > use it for backups?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jim
>
>
>I'm assuming the file system on your old drive was ext3. I'm
>also assuming your new drive is /dev/hda and your old drive is
>/dev/hdb.
>
>At a command prompt, make a directory e.g. in your home directory:
>
>mkdir olddrive
>
>then, as root, mount whatever partitions you want from the old drive,
>e.g.
>
>mount -t ext3 /dev/hdb5 olddrive
>
>To see what partitions you actually have on /dev/hdb, before mounting
>anything you run an fdisk on it:
>
>/sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hdb
>
>
>
>
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That worked and I've copied all my config info to my FC5 install HD.

Now I want to automate backing up to a FC4 HD...

What would be the best way to format the old FC4 HD and create an image of 
the FC5 HD on in for backup purposes?




Thanks,
Jim





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