Re: Recovering data from old hard drive

The output of fdisk is shown below. I think /dev/sdb2 is the root directory. When I do "sudo mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt/disk"
I get "mount: unknown filesystem type 'LVM2_member'". I tried adding -t ext2 and then -t ext3 to the command but it still doesn't work. What is the 8e file type?

mstarnes@Kubuntu:/mnt$ fdisk -l /dev/sdb

Disk /dev/sdb: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux
/dev/sdb2              14        9964    79931407+  8e  Linux LVM

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Nate Metheny <[email protected]>
> [email protected] wrote:
> > I put the FC4 drive in an external USB enclosure and I can see some files but 
> how do I get to my home directory?
> 
> You'll have to examine the partition schema on the drive, (fdisk -l
> /dev/device, likely sdb, but you can get the device name via examining
> mount) and then mount the correct partition. Usually it'll just be the
> one that takes up the most blocks that has home directories on it.
> 
> It'll be mounting the root (/) of your old machine, so don't get confused.
> 
> > 
> > mstarnes@Kubuntu:/media/-boot$ ls -al
> > total 10335
> > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root    1024 2005-11-20 21:40 .
> > drwxr-xr-x 5 root root    4096 2008-04-29 14:02 ..
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   56991 2005-06-02 21:03 config-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   60376 2005-11-09 16:30 config-2.6.14-1.1637_FC4
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    1024 2005-11-20 20:06 grub
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1708104 2005-11-19 16:58 initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.img
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1699812 2005-11-20 20:06 initrd-2.6.14-1.1637_FC4.img
> > drwx------ 2 root root   12288 2005-11-19 09:39 lost+found
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   94600 2005-03-28 15:08 memtest86+-1.55.1
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  764778 2005-06-02 21:03 System.map-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  801712 2005-11-09 16:30 System.map-2.6.14-1.1637_FC4
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1639539 2005-06-02 21:03 vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1558522 2005-11-09 16:30 vmlinuz-2.6.14-1.1637_FC4
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  189050 2005-08-23 12:58 xen-3.0-devel.gz
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      16 2005-11-20 20:45 xen-3.0.gz -> xen-3.0-devel.gz
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      16 2005-11-20 20:45 xen-3.gz -> xen-3.0-devel.gz
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      16 2005-11-20 20:45 xen.gz -> xen-3.0-devel.gz
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1925848 2005-08-23 12:58 xen-syms-3.0-devel
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