Accessing a Unix Hard drive

09-22-2005	#1 (permalink)
Rm2eric Just Joined! Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 2	Accessing a Unix Hard drive I have a UNIX system that got corrupted and could not boot any longer. I have the hard drive in a external case and hooked up to another system booting off of a Linux 3.8 distro. When I try to access the drive it gives me the following error. Could not mount device. The reported error was: mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified Can anyone assist? And if so please reply as if you are talking to the newb that i am

09-22-2005	#2 (permalink)
spoon! Linux Enthusiast Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Hell Posts: 514	What filesystem is it? You can specify the filesystem when you mount with the "-t" option.

09-23-2005	#3 (permalink)
Rm2eric Just Joined! Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 2	The hard drive is from a system running Unix 5.0.6 and from looking my google search my best guess is the FS is SCO. I could very well be wrong but that was all the info I could get.

10-01-2005

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Originally Posted by Rm2eric

The hard drive is from a system running Unix 5.0.6 and from looking my google search my best guess is the FS is SCO. I could very well be wrong but that was all the info I could get.

UFS (I beleive that is the FS SCO Unix uses) is extremely hard to mount and write to in Linux. It's experimental, and I doubt it's enabled in the default Knoppix Linux kernel.

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