John Summerfield wrote:
Lance Earl wrote:
I am considering changing my server from Ubuntu to Centos. I have been tinkering with a box that will eventually become a new server. I am having a problem.
This box has two ide drives. Originally I had a Ubuntu desktop installed on hda and then added a Centos server installed on hdb. I wanted to try a different server configuration without overwriting the current install on hdb. With the server on hdb running, I mounted hda and copied some important files from the Ubuntu drive to the Centos drive. I installed a another instance of centos on hda and everything worked fine. With the hda install running, I have attempted to mount hdb so that I can retrieve my files. The problem I have is that when I mount the drive I am taken to the boot directory on hdb and cannot navigate to the directory that holds my files.
How do I get access to the rest of the drive?
Mount the other partition:-)
After I sent this it occurred to me that filesystem labels may be biting you. Probably, you have two partitions with each filesystem label. Linux tends to choose the Wrong One.
Change /etc/fstab to use device names instead of filesystem labels.
"mount the other partition" still applies, but if you're using LVM the device name has a long and convoluted name, and I don't know how you "mount the other one."