Yes, /dev/sda1 is my primary drive, and /dev/sda2 is the secondary drive in the
ex-RAID. It is where the data I was wanting to get from the backup is.
You are right in the fact that this is an extended partition. There should be two
partitions on it: 1) the mirror of "/" 2) the mirror of "swap".
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[root@login admin]# fdisk -l /dev/sda2
{nothing}
[root@login admin]# fdisk -l /dev/sda1
Disk /dev/sda1: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1045 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Disk /dev/sda1 doesn't contain a valid partition table
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How would I go about mounting the old "/" off of /dev/sda2?
Thanks for all your help.
Caleb Newville - MPS WebCrew
>>OK, my question is now "how do I mount it?". I want to mount the mirror
>>of the "/" partition from inside dev/sda2. Does me a lot of good having a
>>backup when I can't get inside it!
>
>Huh? I'm not following you. Your partition table looks like this
>according to fdisk:
>
> >Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1112 cylinders
> >Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
> >
> > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
>>/dev/sda1 * 1 1046 8401963+ 83 Linux
>>/dev/sda2 1047 1112 530145 5 Extended
>>/dev/sda5 1047 1112 530113+ 82 Linux swap
>
>/dev/sda1 is a regular Linux ext2 partition and I would *guess* that it's
>probably mounted as "/"
>
>/dev/sda2 is an extended partition or to put it another way a "container"
>for other partitions. You can't directly mount it. Notice the start
>cylinder of 1047 and the end cylinder of 1112.
>
>/dev/sda5 is a logical partition, type 82 (Linux swap), contained within
>/dev/sda2. Notice the start/end cylinder values equal those of the
>extended partition. This means the swap partition is using all the
>available space in the extended partition. I'm also guessing that it's
>already mounted as your swap partition. Therefore, there's nothing left to
>mount on this disk. If this is your boot disk then perhaps your mirror of
>"/" is on a different physical drive? If there's more than one disk in the
>box run the same "fdisk -l" command on it - perhaps that's where your
>missing mirror is.
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