Any linux bods out there??

Pauls

I have a WD MYBookWorld NAS drive and a while ago it lost all of my shared directories. I managed to recover a load of photos (long story) a while ago and never used the drive since. I've just started looking at it again and I think my data is still on there, but I can't quite get to it.

I have logged in to the drive with putty and run fdisk -l, which gives me :

Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 5 249 1959936 fd Linux raid autodetect
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 249 280 256992 fd Linux raid autodetect
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda3 280 403 988000 fd Linux raid autodetect
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda4 403 121601 973522944+ fd Linux raid autodetect


Which, to me, seems to suggest my data is on /dev/sda4?

I'm trying to mount the filesystem on a new mount point (/media/temp), using :

mount -t etc3 /dev/sda4 /media/temp

but this is giving me this message:

mount: Mounting /dev/sda4 on /media/temp failed: Device or resource busy

Anyone able to make any suggestions as to what I could try next?

debitcardmayhem

surely you mean ext3 not etc3 ?

debitcardmayhem

Oh and plus where are you trying to mount it , on a linux box ? because I suppose it is a Network share so you can't use /dev/sda4 for a network drive

Pauls

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

surely you mean ext3 not etc3 ?

Oops, yeah that's right

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

Oh and plus where are you trying to mount it , on a linux box ? because I suppose it is a Network share so you can't use /dev/sda4 for a network drive

The drive has a linux os on it, so that's where I'm trying to do it.

debitcardmayhem

Pauls wrote: »

Oops, yeah that's right




The drive has a linux os on it, so that's where I'm trying to do it. /dev/sda4 is the filesystem I'm trying to mount

Then it will be busy , the nas drive will have it already in use. try df or df -k perhaps

Pauls

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

Then it will be busy , the nas drive will have it already in use. try df or df -k perhaps

Doesn't that just show available space on a mounted fs, or am I missing something?

debitcardmayhem

Pauls wrote: »

Doesn't that just show available space on a mounted fs, or am I missing something?

Yep but it shows if it is working, are you having problems accessing it elsewhere. Try ls -altr whatever-it-is-mounted-on

Pauls

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

Yep but it shows if it is working, are you having problems accessing it elsewhere. Try ls -altr whatever-it-is-mounted-on

I think the problem is that it's not mounted anywhere, so I can't get to the data on it.

debitcardmayhem

Pauls wrote: »

I think the problem is that it's not mounted anywhere, so I can't get to the data on it.

Not even on the NAS ?? if that is true then try fsck /dev/sda4
edit ---- although it should do that if needed at power on.

debitcardmayhem

Have you tried access through it's web-interface?

Pauls

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

Not even on the NAS ?? if that is true then try fsck /dev/sda4
edit ---- although it should do that if needed at power on.

that's right, I can't see it at all

Unfortunately, looks like i've only got a subset of linux on the drive. No sign of fsck