ubuntu-users Digest, Vol 26, Issue 289

[Johan Ramm-Ericson]

On Mon, October 30, 2006 wade wrote:
> Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 17:10:46 -0700
> From: wade at wadesmart.com
> Subject: RE: Mount a hd with ubuntu on it
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> I got the drive up and I can see the drive partitions on my screen.
>
> One of them says:
> Partition 2 does not end on a cylinder boundry,
> three says the same thing.
>
> There are four partitions.
> hdd1 hpfs/ntfs - that must be my original windows drive
> hdd2
> hdd3 extended
> hdd5 swap
>
> Ok. How do I gain access to my /home?
>
> wade

One way would be to:

  1) sudo su
  2) mkdir /mnt/oldhome
  3) mount /devhdd2 /mnt/oldhome

Now you can find all your files in /mnt/oldhome. However; that does not
ensure that you automatically have access to your files every time you
reboot. For that to happen you must edit /etc/fstab  (via e.g. sudo gedit
/etc/fstab). The format of /etc/fstab must be adhered to so please the
read the man page for mount. Also, to determine the filesystem type for
hdd2 you could (_after_ having completed steps 1,2 & 3 above) do:

  cat /etc/mtab | grep oldhome | awk  '{print $3}'

In all likelihood it will be "ext3", but please be sure to determine the
type and enter that value in the appropriate place in /etc/fstab.

HTH,
Johan