On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 01:05:03PM +1100, Stephen Grant Brown wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a drive out of a Western Digital Mybookworld World edition drive. > > cfdisk -Ps /dev/sdb > > tells me that there are four partitions and this drive and that the file > system is "Linux raid" on all four partitions. > > How do I mount this partitions so that I can copy the files on this > partition onto another drive?
You may or may not be able to do so. Install mdadm (apt-get or aptitude) if you don't have it already. Plug in the drive. Check /proc/mdstat to see if anything is being mounted. If so, you have a /dev/mdX filesystem available to you now. If not, you want to investigate the partitions: mdadm -Q /dev/sdb1 (and the same for the other partitions) Do you have all the partitions that were part of a RAID set? If so, you can assemble them: mdadm -A /dev/md0 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb2... or something similar. If you don't have needed partitions, you may not be able to get anything. You may be able to reassemble a partial set of a RAID1 or RAID5 set. -dsr- -- http://tao.merseine.nu/~dsr/eula.html is hereby incorporated by reference. You can't defend freedom by getting rid of it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
