On Tuesday 18 March 2008 00:11, Bernardo Dal Seno wrote: > Does "cat /proc/mount" produce the same result? > yes
> Do you see any entry that you cannot identify as a disk you know > (beside the usual proc, sysfs...)? Maybe there is a node in /dev > referring to sdc with another name. > I think this looks good, but no usb hd rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 none /sys sysfs rw 0 0 none /proc proc rw,nodiratime 0 0 udev /dev tmpfs rw 0 0 /dev/mapper/gandalf-root / xfs rw 0 0 /dev/mapper/gandalf-root /dev/.static/dev xfs rw 0 0 tmpfs /lib/init/rw tmpfs rw,nosuid 0 0 usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,nosuid,noexec 0 0 /dev/sda1 /boot xfs rw 0 0 /dev/mapper/gandalf-home /home xfs rw 0 0 /dev/mapper/gandalf-tmp /tmp xfs rw 0 0 /dev/mapper/gandalf-usr /usr xfs rw 0 0 /dev/mapper/gandalf-var /var xfs rw 0 0 /dev/mapper/gandalf-opt /opt xfs rw 0 0 /dev/mapper/gandalf-shared_data /shared_data xfs rw 0 0 binfmt_misc /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw 0 0 > > Can you read the disk? E.g. (probably to be done as root) > dd if=/dev/sdc of=/dev/null count=10 > dd if=/dev/sdc2 of=/dev/null count=10 > 10+0 records in 10+0 records out 5120 bytes (5.1 kB) copied, 8.6e-05 seconds, 59.5 MB/s > Can you mount it read-only (-o ro)? mount /media/backup/: mount: /dev/disk/by-id/usb-WDC_WD30_00JB-00KFA0_0-part2 already mounted or /media/backup busy sudo mount -o ro /dev/sdc2 /mnt/ mount: /dev/sdc2 already mounted or /mnt/tmp/ busy Jörg
