From: "Amadeus W. M." <amadeus84@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
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
