craigni wrote: > Hi Gurus, I have a dual boot system with Fedora 7 on one drive and Fedora 8 on another. I'd like the Fedora 8 system to access the data on the Fedora 7 system. Fedora 8 sees 7 as sdc. > > If I enter: > > $ sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sdc1 /mnt/test > $ ls /mnt/test > config-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 initrd-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.img System.map-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 vmlinuz-2.6.22.9-91.fc7 > config-2.6.22.9-91.fc7 initrd-2.6.22.9-91.fc7.img System.map-2.6.22.9-91.fc7 > grub lost+found vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 > > but I can't access the data on the filesystem from there. If I enter: > > $ sudo umount /mnt/test > $ sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sdc2 /mnt/test > > I get: > > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc2, > missing codepage or helper program, or other error > In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try > dmesg | tail or so > > Is it possible to access the data on the F7 system from booted F8? If so, how? > > Many TIA > Craig > > The problem is probably that sdc2 is an LVM volume, os it is a little harder to mount. Probably the easiest way is to look at /etc/fstab on F7, and copy the entry for /, changing / to match the desired mount point.For example, if fstab has: /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1 you would want to do something like: mount /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /mnt/test. The reason you can mount /boot is because it is not an LVM volume, but is a standard ext2/3 file system. If you do not want to boot F7 to get the information, you should also be able to get it when you have sc1 mounted by looking at /mnt/test/grub/grub.conf and looking at the root= line. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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