From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0870C1381F3 for ; Thu, 30 Apr 2020 19:59:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C7BA3E09DD; Thu, 30 Apr 2020 19:59:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from coleridge.oriole.systems (coleridge.oriole.systems [89.238.76.34]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 62613E09B6 for ; Thu, 30 Apr 2020 19:59:22 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 21:59:20 +0200 From: Wynn Wolf Arbor To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with backup harddisks Message-ID: <20200430195920.cmmaqkqpg5cipdgn@nabokov.fritz.box> Mail-Followup-To: Wynn Wolf Arbor , gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20200430093217.efprkpt4kbvir7nr@solfire> <5EAAA0AB.3050505@youngman.org.uk> <22faa7cf-7291-b430-c646-b96c6d428f19@alyf.net> <20200430180839.iz4kxipst2i5stwp@solfire> <20200430192713.ptlo7crtwvskse7n@nabokov.fritz.box> <20200430194650.yjnmsuwwwq4j4eer@solfire> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200430194650.yjnmsuwwwq4j4eer@solfire> X-Archives-Salt: 6975ae8d-96fd-4f8f-b434-0fa23e0783c4 X-Archives-Hash: 303f3e24ca35c260e7fc119b9067a5b5 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