[cobalt-users] Mounting partitions on old RAQ550 disk

["Crocket" <crocket@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi folks,

A couple of days ago, you guys helped me to find the problem with RAQ550
keeps rebooting.
It was the disk.

<copy>
> Is there an easy way I can mount the old disk in the raq550 next to the
> newone I've just installed.
> I'd like to recover some files if possible.

Not sure, you can do it on a RaQ3 or RaQ4 running non-RAID software. I
would try a spare disk you might have laying around, see if RAID0 doesn't
try to use it. If not, then you should be able to install it and mount it
to remove files.

Best bet is to install it on a non-RAID system, tar up and ftp the
tarballs someplace safe.

Gerald
</copy>

I've tried adding a spare Raq4 disk in a raq4i on the second ide port and it
seems fdisk recognizes it and raid0 isn't trying to use it.

[root admin]# /sbin/fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 29770 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1             1      1524    768095+  83  Linux
/dev/hda2          1525      1846    162288    5  Extended
/dev/hda3          1847      2253    205128   83  Linux
/dev/hda4          2254     29770  13868568   83  Linux
/dev/hda5          1525      1585     30743+  83  Linux
/dev/hda6          1586      1846    131543+  82  Linux swap

Disk /dev/hdd: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 39693 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdd1             1      1524    768095+  83  Linux
/dev/hdd2          1525      1846    162288    5  Extended
/dev/hdd3          1847      2253    205128   83  Linux
/dev/hdd4          2254     39693  18869760   83  Linux
/dev/hdd5          1525      1585     30743+  83  Linux
/dev/hdd6          1586      1846    131543+  82  Linux swap

Are the following commands correct to mount the /var , /home and / on the
old disk ?
# mount -t ext2 /dev/hdd1 /oldroot
# mount -t ext2 /dev/hdd3 /oldvar
# mount -t ext2 /dev/hdd4 /oldhome
Is this enough or should something be added to the fstab ?
Any idea what will happen with symlinks ?

I'd like to test it on this raq4 OS disk before using the actual RAQ550 OS
disk.

Sorry for the long post but I don't wanna do anything wrong here.

Thanks for any info
John