Today I tried to help a client restore an MS SQL database from a disk drive, so I tried to copy it off of his SATA drive mounted on a USB converter plugged into my USB port. The system found it as /dev/sdb. I could see that it had 2 partitions, sdb1 and sdb2. The data was on the sdb2 partition, but when I plugged it into my F14 laptop USB port, only the /dev/sdb1 partition finished mounting. I could see the /dev/sdb2 mount command running with "ps", but it never finished mounting. The mount point directory remained blank. And, to boot, I couldn't kill the mount command with a "kill -9". The process was in one of the "D" states, but there were no errors in /var/log/messages, and the process never seemed to finish, not after 10 minutes....
Could someone please explain to me what would keep the partition from mounting (with ntfs-3g and ntfsprogs installed). I'm pretty sure I can't kill it because the system is waiting for some disk IO to complete, but I can be annoyed because it is taking so long. (If it helps, this disk used to be the system disk on my client's Windows 7 system. It developed a problem that keeps it from booting Windows 7 properly. So, the customer went out and purchased a new disk drive to replace it, installed Windows 7 on it along with their application. Now they just want to migrate their old database from the old disk drive to their new disk drive so that they have access to their customer data again. Windows 7 is able to mount their old disk drive as the G: drive (though it takes a short while), but they are unable to copy their database off it due to "Permissions" problems. Which is strange because all the file permissions look to be the same on both disk drives.) -- Kevin J. Cummings kjch...@verizon.net cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net cummi...@kjc386.framingham.ma.us Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
