On 03/07/06, Kirti S. Bajwa <kbajwa at tibonline.net> wrote: > NO I did not mount the partition. > > How the name for the SLAVE device is assigned? In your example, you have > used 'sdb1'. My understanding is that the SLAVE drive should be listed in > /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab. Neither of these files exist. > > I am a newbie, so any help is appreciated. The following will list the disks and their partitions... # fdisk -l /dev/hda is probably already partitioned and mounted. I'd guess your old unmounted disk will be /dev/hdb, possibly /dev/hdc or hdd. If the partitions are labelled you'll be able to tell what they were mounted as with... # e2label /dev/hdbN ... where N is the partition no. of each slice on the disk as revealed by fdisk. Then you can mount these partitions somewhere temporarily to have a root around in them/copy stuff out. For each partition... # mkdir /mnt/old-disk-hdbN # mount /dev/hdbN /mnt/old-disk-hdbN Will.