[CentOS] unable to mount centos hard drive

John Summerfield

debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Sat Jan 27 21:36:13 UTC 2007


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:-)



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