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Title: How to copy files from ibay booting from i.e. Knoppix?
Post by: mono on March 02, 2005, 11:56:02 PM

I'm having problems with two SME-servers these days and one is suffering from "unsynchronised" mirrored HDs and will not boot.
I'm able to boot the machine via Knoppix 3.7 and can browse files/directories under the various ibays, but the information I want to copy is of course in a "locked" directory ...
Can anyone guide me towards being able to mount/access this info somehow and then copy it?
I do have valid user names/passwords, but don't know how to procede.
Should I create a user on the rescue distro with the same user name and password and/or is there a preferred solution.
TiA!
Terje

Title: How to copy files from ibay booting from i.e. Knoppix?
Post by: Buddha_Joe on March 03, 2005, 04:39:43 AM

This maybe a stupid question, but while running on the livecd did you switch to su in a terminal before trying to access those directories?

Title: How to copy files from ibay booting from i.e. Knoppix?
Post by: Quail_Linux on March 03, 2005, 08:19:49 AM

Hi Terje,

Knoppix FAQ:
http://download.linuxtag.org/knoppix/KNOPPIX-FAQ-EN.txt

HTH

Title: How to copy files from ibay booting from i.e. Knoppix?
Post by: Buddha_Joe on March 03, 2005, 09:01:40 AM

I just read that faq.. Terje can still switch to su in a terminal then mount the device using "mount -o rw <device> <mount point>" instead of mounting it using the desktop.

this overrides what is in the fstab as well

Title: How to copy files from ibay booting from i.e. Knoppix?
Post by: mono on March 07, 2005, 11:58:21 PM

The "trick" turned out to be being root in Knoppix 3.7 (not su, not a user with permissions), as root probably is the same uid on most systems.
I succeeded copying the files to another HD and saved the files.
Thanks!
terje