Hard drive moving

[ciaran]

If I take a hard drive from an existing linux box, and connect it as a slave on a different box, can I access it, (I am the superuser, and have the same password on both boxes), when i tried this i could not see the files I want to copy.I could mount the drive /dev/hdc Ok.
Is this impossible, or is thier some tip I should Know setting up the drives ?

Regards

Ciaran.

[Spot]

You should be able to without too much hassle, just make sure you know the filesystem type and partition structure before you try to mount anything.

[JimH]

Like Spot said this will work fine.

You mounted the drive, but you cannot see the files you want to copy? Are you sure you mounted the right partition?

Jim H

[trommaster]

are you mounting "/dev/hdc" or something like /dev/hdc1?
you also have to specify the partition number, 1,2,3 etc.