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PostPosted: Thu May 24, 2007 6:55 pm    Post subject: Access ext3 partition from Gentoo LiveCD Reply with quote

How can I access my ext3 partition (where Ubuntu is installed and has all my files) from the Gentoo LiveCD? Ubuntu mounts these automatically so I never learned how to do this manually.
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PostPosted: Thu May 24, 2007 7:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

OK. I am not an expert on LiveCD, but I assume it has ext3 drivers compiled. So IMHO it should be enough to do
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mount -t ext3 /dev/... /mnt/...

where after dev/ you put your partition name and instead of 'mnt' destination mount point.
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PostPosted: Thu May 24, 2007 7:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi.

Start by running on the gentoo live-cd fdisk -l - it will show you what partitions you have in your system. To mount a partition you need to run mount -t <filesystem-type> -o <list-of-options-separated-by-commas> /dev/<partition-device-node> /<path>/<to>/<mount>. As an example you can use:
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# mount -t ext2 /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo

You must have the dir where you want to mount the partition. The above example will fail if you have no /mnt/gentoo dir. You also need to choose the correct partition. Look at partitions with Id=83. Don't try to mount any partition with Id=82 as that is the swap partition.
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PostPosted: Thu May 24, 2007 7:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thank you maczo and jmbsvicetto!
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