[GRLUG] Mounting XFS though usb?

[Benjamin Flanders]

Thank you guys so much.  file -s showed me that I had set an LVM.  I
now have something that I can google and work on.

Again thank you

Share and Enjoy
Ben



On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Adam Tauno
Williams<awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 20:48 -0400, Benjamin Flanders wrote:
>> Is this possible?  I am setting up my new server and would like to
>> transfer some files from the old hard drives to my new one.  I am
>> using an usb enclosure to access the old hard drives.
>> I can mount the ext3 /boot partition using 'sudo mount -t etx3
>> /dev/sdc1 /media/usbDrive/' but when I try to mount the xfs partition
>> by 'sudo mount -t xfs /dev/sdc5 /media/usbDrive/'  I get the error
>
> I'd guess you are mounting the wrong partition.  I've mounted XFS
> volumes from drives in USB caddies numerous times - there is no
> fundamental reason it won't work.
>
>> mount: wrong fs, type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc5,
>> missing codepage or helper program, or other error
>> dmesg | tail shows
>> XFS: bad magic number
>> XFS: SB validate failed
>> I do believe that the partition is formated using XFS (It's been a
>> while since I set this server up) if I try any other fs type, dmesg
>> shows Can't find ext3(for example) filesystem on dev sdc5
>
> Use "file -s" to identify the contents of the partition.
>
>> This is using ubuntu 9.04 server edition if that makes a difference.
>
> Nah, it doesn't - so long as it has XFS support.
>
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