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Whoa, I fscked up royale. Go figure.
Posted by chr0nik on Thu 7 Dec 2006 at 01:00
Right. So uh... I had some security issues with my nifty old Dell box hosting a fun domain. I think someone enjoyed a large percentage of a 200GB drive for uh... years maybe? Right. That totally sucks. I immediately whacked all my pirated warez including an incredible book collection for poor ppl... Anyway, step one to solving problems with security is isolation, I think. To find a safe place in my noggin, I actually killed all the power in my house on Turkey Day. Anywho, I'm back trying to pretend that I actually know what I'm doing. That 200GB disk now hold Debian Etch and it appears to be doing great so far (outside of the fact that I'm quite gimpy and may already again be subjected to arse rape w/o knowing.) So here's the deal. I just want to mount the old filesystem to see if I can at least salvage tables in mysql, pages in jspwiki and the contents of my cvs install. As I said, I'm gimpy so I'm trying to learn to love some of the sexier (gnome, kde) facets of my new Debian install. When I try to mount the old disk in Nautilus by clicking on the neat-o icon, I get a painful message telling me I'm dumb... reminding, rather. I need some help please. I really don't want to lose all that source code and whatever else I had. I need to understand two things. 1, recovering data from unbootable Debian installs and 2, how the fsck do I setup a decent backup system with no real backup gear (tape drives, burners, etc.) installed on my server. A tarball of cvs would be neat. Some way to migrate wordpress and gallery would make Christmas a happy place for blue arsed damn yankee to exist in. Anyone interested in not calling me a fool via WTF, STFU and RTFM comments? I'm just trying to get simpsonhomestead.com back up in some semblance of similarity to what it was before my little bipolar manic meltdown.
libhal-storage.c 1401 : info: called libhal_free_dbus_error but dbuserror was not set.
process 10564: applications must not close shared connections - see dbus_connection_close() docs. this is a bug in the application.
error: device /dev/hde1 is not removable
error: could not execute pmount
libhal-storage.c 1401 : info: called libhal_free_dbus_error but dbuserror was not set.
process 10564: applications must not close shared connections - see dbus_connection_close() docs. this is a bug in the application.
error: device /dev/hde1 is not removable
error: could not execute pmount
Comments on this Entry
Posted by Anonymous (211.72.xx.xx) on Fri 8 Dec 2006 at 17:58
Wait, wait, wait... I dont understand. Sounds like you killed the hacked server, took the hard drive from it and now you're trying to mount it one another machine running Debian Etch? And those errors pop up when you issue the 'mount' command?
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The server has 2 disks. Disk 1 still has the old version of Debian I was using to host gallery, wordpress and jspwiki. Disk 2, 200GB, was loaded with warez. So, I noticed I was pwnz0red and I immediately wiped the 200GB disk. Presently, I'm running on disk 2 with an install of Etch and I left disk 1 in tact. I had some decent content in the apps previously mentioned... but the most important thing is everything in cvs and the local build scripts I wrote to do things for me. So really, I'd like a zipped tarball of cvs plus my home directory. The rest can be replaced if needed. I'm not even sure where to start with all the other horrible things going on that are having a free lunch at the expense of my sanity. I need to feel safe inside... inside this old Dell work horse. No more hospital visits.
Honestly, to totally feel safe and start fresh, I went off the power grid for a few hours and just thought about things far more important than electricity and pirated warez I'd never buy in the first place.
Honestly, to totally feel safe and start fresh, I went off the power grid for a few hours and just thought about things far more important than electricity and pirated warez I'd never buy in the first place.
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Put Disk1 back into the system as a slave. Boot up your new linux box watching to see what the drive is detected as.
Once the system has booted, make a directory somewhere (maybe /mnt/olddisk). Determine the partitions that were used on that harddrive and mount accordingly underneath "olddisk" directory.
Recover from there.
Once the system has booted, make a directory somewhere (maybe /mnt/olddisk). Determine the partitions that were used on that harddrive and mount accordingly underneath "olddisk" directory.
Recover from there.
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Posted by Anonymous (71.142.xx.xx) on Sun 15 Apr 2007 at 03:25
Put Disk1 back into the system as a slave. Boot up your new linux box watching to see what the drive is detected as.
Once the system has booted, make a directory somewhere (maybe /mnt/olddisk). Determine the partitions that were used on that harddrive and mount accordingly underneath "olddisk" directory.
Im a newbe and have the same problem. I cannot access my first partition winxp with debian. I get the same error.
Could you explain in further detail how to access the partition with debian?
Once the system has booted, make a directory somewhere (maybe /mnt/olddisk). Determine the partitions that were used on that harddrive and mount accordingly underneath "olddisk" directory.
Im a newbe and have the same problem. I cannot access my first partition winxp with debian. I get the same error.
Could you explain in further detail how to access the partition with debian?
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Posted by Anonymous (12.156.xx.xx) on Mon 16 Apr 2007 at 15:03
mkdir -p /mnt/olddrive/XP
mount -t ntfs /dev/hdXn /mnt/olddrive/XP
Where X is the drive letter of the old harddrive
Where n is the partition
Example:
mkdir -p /mnt/olddrive/XP
mount -t ntfs /dev/hdb1 /mnt/olddrive/XP
You can use dmesg after bootup to see what drives were detected.
Hopefully my .02 cents will help you...it's Monday and I'm groggy so forgive any obvious errors you see here.
mount -t ntfs /dev/hdXn /mnt/olddrive/XP
Where X is the drive letter of the old harddrive
Where n is the partition
Example:
mkdir -p /mnt/olddrive/XP
mount -t ntfs /dev/hdb1 /mnt/olddrive/XP
You can use dmesg after bootup to see what drives were detected.
Hopefully my .02 cents will help you...it's Monday and I'm groggy so forgive any obvious errors you see here.
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