[LUAU] Linux HD Recovery
John S. Johnson
jsj at amagata.com
Mon Jan 15 19:48:08 PST 2007
One of my favorite things about going away to events like CES is the opportunity to flirt with disaster recovery. Usually the extent of our disaster is a HECO-induced blackout that requires a power button press to solve everything. This time, however, a capacitor on my motherboard blew and said linux system went bye-bye. In an ideal world I would have recently backed up my files and Postgres database. In reality, I hadn't. The drive is still intact and I figured I would hook it up to another linux box via an external USB enclosure. When I connect the drive and look at it with fdisk, I notice it has a small boot partition(type Linux) and the rest is a Linux LVM partition. In /etc/fstab I tried to set up both /dev/sdb1(boot) and /dev/sdb2(rest) with the following lines:
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/tempdrive auto defaults, ro 0 0
/dev/sdb2 /mnt/tempdrive2 auto defaults, ro 0 0
I can mount sdb1 but sdb2 flags me with the error:
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
Looking at the drive with fdisk shows me that sdb1 is Linux and sdb2 is a Linux LVM drive...any ideas on how to get sdb2 mounted? Thanks in advance!!
Sincerely,
John Johnson
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