Hello

 

I need to recover some files on a replaced unraid hdd i had lying around. I connected the drive with a usb/sata dock and connected it to my Ubuntu 9.10 box. But the drive isn't mounted like it does with ntfs or fat or ext3. Ubuntu does have ReiserFS support out of the box right? Do i have to mount it manually? I can see the drive in Ubuntu Disk Utility.

try mounting it manually with -t reiserfs

Note that an unraid parity disk is unmountable as it has no file system.  It's merely a checksum for the other drives in the array.

also, the file system is on partition 1, so you'll probably need to specify that too.

 

mkdir /tmp/mount_point

mount -r -t reiserfs /dev/sdX1 /tmp/mount_point

where sdX is the correct device name for the disk followed by a "1".

Under ubuntu you will probably need to sudu those commands.

This is what I did:

 

root@ubuntu:/home/bart# mkdir /tmp/mount_point

root@ubuntu:/home/bart# mount -r -t reiserfs /dev/sdb1 /tmp/mount_point

mount: /dev/sdb1 already mounted or /tmp/mount_point busy

mount: according to mtab, /dev/sdb1 is mounted on /media/9d990ea2-759e-4c63-bc7e-34756b7c5e88

root@ubuntu:/home/bart#

 

Do i have to unmount it first?

 

This is what I did:

 

root@ubuntu:/home/bart# mkdir /tmp/mount_point

root@ubuntu:/home/bart# mount -r -t reiserfs /dev/sdb1 /tmp/mount_point

mount: /dev/sdb1 already mounted or /tmp/mount_point busy

mount: according to mtab, /dev/sdb1 is mounted on /media/9d990ea2-759e-4c63-bc7e-34756b7c5e88

root@ubuntu:/home/bart#

 

Do i have to unmount it first?

 

Looks like it auto-mounted it for you.  Yes, you can

umount /dev/sdb1

and then mount it on your own mount point...

 

Joe L.

Ok that seems to be working, but now i have a problem accessing the actual mount point:

 

You do not have the permissions necessary to view the contents of "mount_point".

 

 

Ok that seems to be working, but now i have a problem accessing the actual mount point:

 

You do not have the permissions necessary to view the contents of "mount_point".

 

 

 

you probably have to run the commands with sudo

Ok that seems to be working, but now i have a problem accessing the actual mount point:

 

You do not have the permissions necessary to view the contents of "mount_point".

 

 

 

sudo chown <you>:<your_group> <mountpoint>

...or just become root for the rest of the session:

sudo su

Kinda regretting not just looking at it on the mount point that ubuntu gave it automatically now? (grin)  I love it when a system helps me and I just insist on doing things the hard way...  (It happens WAY too often)