I have a Linux server with 2 Hard disks (IDE). The machine went down and refuses to boot. I need to recover some data from one of the disks. Can I put this drive in a different Linux box and recover tha data I need. Thanks in advance, Prasad
Yes you should be able to without any major problems. The only pitfall maybe that your working system maybe configured to mount filesystems by LABEL (ie /etc/fstab LABEL=/ etc) which is never a good thing as you'd likely have two filesystems with a "/" label (one on each disk), thus you'd probably first want to change all LABEL references in the /etc/fstab of the working system to normal /dev/hdX /dev/sdX device entries. Afterwards everything should work no problem. (assuming the new machine has kernel drivers for the filesystems you used on the old machine, which might be a problem - but the centosplus kernel has pretty much everything...)
Cheers, MaZe.
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Prasad Pillarisetti wrote:
I have a Linux server with 2 Hard disks (IDE). The machine went down and refuses to boot. I need to recover some data from one of the disks. Can I put this drive in a different Linux box and recover tha data I need. Thanks in advance, Prasad
possibly better yet, download a knoppix cdrom, boot the dead server from that, and mount your disks and copy the data off.
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 08:33:03PM +0200, Maciej ?enczykowski wrote:
Yes you should be able to without any major problems. The only pitfall maybe that your working system maybe configured to mount filesystems by LABEL (ie /etc/fstab LABEL=/ etc) which is never a good
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Prasad Pillarisetti wrote:
I have a Linux server with 2 Hard disks (IDE). The machine went down and refuses to boot. I need to recover some data from one of the disks. Can I put this drive in a different Linux box and recover tha data I need. Thanks in advance, Prasad
danno -- dan pritts - systems administrator - internet2 734/352-4953 office 734/834-7224 mobile
maybe, but I was under the impression that the computer was dead - not - the system...
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Dan Pritts wrote:
possibly better yet, download a knoppix cdrom, boot the dead server from that, and mount your disks and copy the data off.
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 08:33:03PM +0200, Maciej ?enczykowski wrote:
Yes you should be able to without any major problems. The only pitfall maybe that your working system maybe configured to mount filesystems by LABEL (ie /etc/fstab LABEL=/ etc) which is never a good
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Prasad Pillarisetti wrote:
I have a Linux server with 2 Hard disks (IDE). The machine went down and refuses to boot. I need to recover some data from one of the disks. Can I put this drive in a different Linux box and recover tha data I need. Thanks in advance, Prasad
danno
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