Adding existing Fedora drives to new install

[Bret Stern]

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of 
> Bob McClure Jr
> Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2006 1:53 PM
> To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Adding existing Fedora drives to new install
> 
> On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 12:24:30PM -0700, Bret Stern wrote:
> > 
> > I've had to re-install Fedora 5 on some new scsi drives.
> > 
> > But I need to get some data off of the previous scsi drives.
> > 
> > Can I install the old drives and temporarily mount them to get the 
> > data?
> 
> If you mean in place of the new drive(s), yes, that's 
> trivial.  If you mean in addition to the new drives, yes, 
> it's easy, with a few caveats.
> 
> > Is this possible?
> 
> Check your /etc/fstab.  If it has entries that look like
> 
> LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    
> defaults        1 2
> 
> instead of
> 
> /dev/sda1               /boot                   ext3    
> defaults        1 2
> 
> and the old drives also have mounts by labels in their 
> /etc/fstab, it will have a problem upon booting figuring out 
> which partition with a /boot label to mount on /boot.
> 
> On your new, operational disks change the labels to real 
> device names (run "df" to find out what they are), then shut 
> down, install the old drive(s), and reboot.  When you 
> temporarily mount the old partitions, create a scratch mount 
> point (directory) such as /oldstuff, and use device names, 
> not labels, when you do the mounts.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
> bob at bobcatos.com             http://www.bobcatos.com
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Thanks Bob, this has been very helpful.
Bret