Lost 1TB hard drive

[ashley194]

Hi all,
Prior to installing PC-BSD 7.1, I had 2 hard drives (150GB & 1TB both originally set as ext3). I installed the OS onto the 150GB hard drive, am now the proud owner of a PC-BSD desktop 8)

Only thing is, I can't locate my 1TB hard drive (with all my music, emails etc).

Any pointers where this 1TB hard drive is hiding

Thanks!

[ashley194]

Just tried with a sidux live DVD & my 1TB hard drive is still there (thank goodness!). If I can't access this drive in PC-BSD, then it's back to sidux for me :twisted:

Any help/advice would be appreciated!

[BlackBox]

Is that an external or an internal drive?
Can you see it when you start System/KDiskFree?
Do you remember if the installer saw the drive?

[ashley194]

Hi BlackBox!
I used both the internal SATA 150GB as my sidux install drive, the internal SATA 1TB as my backup drive.

In PC-BSD 7.1 I installed again on my 150GB drive, hoping to transfer all the emails etc... from the TB drive.

As I was installing I was given the option to install to either drive. Installing onto a TB drive is a definite overkill, so chose the 150GB option!

Thanks.

[tano]

I am quoting from another forum

Phoenix said

"FreeBSD can only mount ext2 filesystems that use 128-byte inodes. If the filesystem uses 256-byte inodes, you will not be able to mount the filesytem. There are patches floating around to enable support for 256-byte inode ext2 filesystems, but I don't think they've been incorporated into FreeBSD yet."

To find the Inode count of your system try

tunefs -l /dev | grep Inode

What command are you using to mount?

Try

# kldload ext2fs
# mount -t ext2fs /dev/adXsX /mnt/XXX

Or is it Dolphin that gives you a hal error?

[ashley194]

Hi tano!
As my TB drive has been formatted using ext3, plus there's loads of music, emails etc... (200GB+), I'll stay with Linux.

Thanks for the advice.