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From: Wynn Wolf Arbor <wolf@oriole.systems>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with backup harddisks
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 21:59:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200430195920.cmmaqkqpg5cipdgn@nabokov.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200430194650.yjnmsuwwwq4j4eer@solfire>

Hi Meino,

On 2020-04-30 21:46, tuxic@posteo.de wrote:
>I had booted into my old system, attached the disks and both show the
>same behaviour: Only the device itself (/dev/sdb) was recognized.

Now that is very curious. Just to make sure, the old system definitely 
does not understand GPT? CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION should be unset.

>'file' shows the following output:
>
>file sdb-data
>sdb-data: Linux rev 1.0 ext4 filesystem data, UUID=2f063705-0d3a-4790-9203-1b4edab7788c (extents) (64bit) (large files) (huge files)
>
>Looks better than I have thought...or?

This does indeed look promising (and is what I expected in the best 
case). Now, of course, the problem is figuring out how to get to that 
data.

>I will take a deeper look tommorrow...I am too tired to
>"fix partition tables manually" this evening!
>
>Read you tommorrow! :)

Hope the rest of your evening will be more relaxing!

-- 
Wolf


  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-30 19:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-30  9:32 [gentoo-user] Trouble with backup harddisks tuxic
2020-04-30  9:55 ` Wols Lists
2020-04-30 10:36   ` tuxic
2020-04-30 12:17     ` Wols Lists
2020-04-30 13:10       ` Wynn Wolf Arbor
2020-04-30 17:04         ` tuxic
2020-04-30 17:21           ` Wynn Wolf Arbor
2020-04-30 19:32           ` antlists
2020-05-01  1:59             ` tuxic
2020-05-01  8:03               ` tuxic
2020-05-01 20:27                 ` antlists
2020-05-02  1:42                   ` tuxic
2020-05-02 17:31                     ` Wols Lists
2020-05-02 17:49                       ` tuxic
2020-05-02 17:55                       ` tuxic
2020-04-30 13:44   ` Andrea Conti
2020-04-30 18:08     ` tuxic
2020-04-30 19:27       ` Wynn Wolf Arbor
2020-04-30 19:46         ` tuxic
2020-04-30 19:59           ` Wynn Wolf Arbor [this message]
2020-04-30 20:21         ` Andrea Conti
2020-04-30 20:47           ` Wynn Wolf Arbor
2020-05-01  5:07             ` tuxic
2020-05-01  6:52               ` Andrea Conti
2020-05-01  7:18                 ` tuxic
2020-05-01 10:27                   ` Wynn Wolf Arbor
2020-05-01 16:00                   ` Andrea Conti
2020-05-01 16:32                     ` Peter Humphrey
2020-05-02  2:03                       ` tuxic
2020-05-02  7:49                         ` Andrea Conti
2020-05-02  8:39                           ` tuxic
2020-05-02  9:23                             ` Michael

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