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
