[Sig] HD problems from a crashed PC

[Randy Kramer]

On Wednesday 21 December 2005 06:57 pm, Russ wrote:
> Thanks Randy,
> I was out of the house taking my last stab at enriching the medical
> establishment.

Last stab?  I hope not ;-)

> On 12/21/05, Randy Kramer <rhkramer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Will I need to mount it in order to copy the files?
> >
> > Yes.

> This is informative.  I hadn't realized that the mnt command would
> need to be used.

Had trouble snipping, might have snipped too much, but...

I may have confused things on two points:

   * First, Jeff has a good point, if you use dd you won't have to mount the 
hard drive 

   * but, if you go to mount the drive, the command is "mount"--my use of 
"mnt" above is as a directory name--Mandriva, and, iirc, many modern Linux 
distros create a /mnt directory with mountpoints (i.e., empty directories) 
for common removable or temporary media 
(like /mnt/floppy, /mnt/cdrom, /mnt/win_d, etc.)--thus, you don't have to 
create those directories yourself.  If I need additional mount points, it is 
now my habit to make most of them under /mnt.  (NFS mounts on my network are 
an exception, I create mountpoints that start in a directory using the system 
(host/computer) "name", e.g., /sys12/home/rhk, etc.

Happy holidays!
Randy Kramer



>
> I got some feedback from the HD owner about the probable file names.
> That'll help a bit.