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From: Wynn Wolf Arbor <wolf@××××××.systems>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with backup harddisks
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 19:59:28
Message-Id: 20200430195920.cmmaqkqpg5cipdgn@nabokov.fritz.box
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with backup harddisks by tuxic@posteo.de
1 Hi Meino,
2
3 On 2020-04-30 21:46, tuxic@××××××.de wrote:
4 >I had booted into my old system, attached the disks and both show the
5 >same behaviour: Only the device itself (/dev/sdb) was recognized.
6
7 Now that is very curious. Just to make sure, the old system definitely
8 does not understand GPT? CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION should be unset.
9
10 >'file' shows the following output:
11 >
12 >file sdb-data
13 >sdb-data: Linux rev 1.0 ext4 filesystem data, UUID=2f063705-0d3a-4790-9203-1b4edab7788c (extents) (64bit) (large files) (huge files)
14 >
15 >Looks better than I have thought...or?
16
17 This does indeed look promising (and is what I expected in the best
18 case). Now, of course, the problem is figuring out how to get to that
19 data.
20
21 >I will take a deeper look tommorrow...I am too tired to
22 >"fix partition tables manually" this evening!
23 >
24 >Read you tommorrow! :)
25
26 Hope the rest of your evening will be more relaxing!
27
28 --
29 Wolf