On Thursday 24 June 2010 14:33:04 Mikkel wrote: > > Dumb question - is your external case rated for a drive that large? > From the messages, it sounds like the drive is too big. Depending on > the electronics, there is a drive size limit to external cases. > > Mikkel By a process of elimination, unplugging, removing and reseating the HDD, rebooting etc., I have got the HDD working and am currently copying across the contents of the NTFS partition (/dev/sdb1). Also auto-mounted was the boot partition (/dev/sdb2) However, I can't get the main root partition to mount. As the fdisk shows, this was a LVM. Can anyone please tell me how to mount the LVM so I can copy the contents across. Gary [root@dcomp5 ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0xa42d04a3 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 13 104391 de Dell Utility /dev/sdb2 14 15481 124246710 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sdb3 * 15482 15507 204800 83 Linux /dev/sdb4 15508 38913 188008695 5 Extended /dev/sdb5 15508 38913 188008448 8e Linux LVM [root@dcomp5 ~]# -- Gary Stainburn This email does not contain private or confidential material as it may be snooped on by interested government parties for unknown and undisclosed purposes - Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, 2000 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
