Adding HDD from different server install without formatting and preserving files
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I have a new Ubuntu 16.04 LTS install with the OS on an SSD. I have a separate 10TB storage drive in the server. I also have another 10TB drive from the server I am upgrading from. This third drive has a lot of files I need to save but also has the previous OS as it was the only drive in that machine. I need to place this in the new server and want to use it but also want to keep all of the data besides the operating files from the previous server. When I try to boot the server with this drive in, it goes to emergency mode. I assume this is because it has partitions named SDA*. What would be the process for getting this to mount in the new server and be usable. Is there a way to rename the partition in emergency mode and allow it to boot. Is there something I can do in the fstab file? I am not a CLI ninja so need explicite instructions of what I should do, or clear enough instructions to be deciphered by the CLI ninja I can hand off to.
Thanks in advance!
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I have a new Ubuntu 16.04 LTS install with the OS on an SSD. I have a separate 10TB storage drive in the server. I also have another 10TB drive from the server I am upgrading from. This third drive has a lot of files I need to save but also has the previous OS as it was the only drive in that machine. I need to place this in the new server and want to use it but also want to keep all of the data besides the operating files from the previous server. When I try to boot the server with this drive in, it goes to emergency mode. I assume this is because it has partitions named SDA*. What would be the process for getting this to mount in the new server and be usable. Is there a way to rename the partition in emergency mode and allow it to boot. Is there something I can do in the fstab file? I am not a CLI ninja so need explicite instructions of what I should do, or clear enough instructions to be deciphered by the CLI ninja I can hand off to.
Thanks in advance!
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I have a new Ubuntu 16.04 LTS install with the OS on an SSD. I have a separate 10TB storage drive in the server. I also have another 10TB drive from the server I am upgrading from. This third drive has a lot of files I need to save but also has the previous OS as it was the only drive in that machine. I need to place this in the new server and want to use it but also want to keep all of the data besides the operating files from the previous server. When I try to boot the server with this drive in, it goes to emergency mode. I assume this is because it has partitions named SDA*. What would be the process for getting this to mount in the new server and be usable. Is there a way to rename the partition in emergency mode and allow it to boot. Is there something I can do in the fstab file? I am not a CLI ninja so need explicite instructions of what I should do, or clear enough instructions to be deciphered by the CLI ninja I can hand off to.
Thanks in advance!
boot partitioning recovery-mode
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I have a new Ubuntu 16.04 LTS install with the OS on an SSD. I have a separate 10TB storage drive in the server. I also have another 10TB drive from the server I am upgrading from. This third drive has a lot of files I need to save but also has the previous OS as it was the only drive in that machine. I need to place this in the new server and want to use it but also want to keep all of the data besides the operating files from the previous server. When I try to boot the server with this drive in, it goes to emergency mode. I assume this is because it has partitions named SDA*. What would be the process for getting this to mount in the new server and be usable. Is there a way to rename the partition in emergency mode and allow it to boot. Is there something I can do in the fstab file? I am not a CLI ninja so need explicite instructions of what I should do, or clear enough instructions to be deciphered by the CLI ninja I can hand off to.
Thanks in advance!
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Start by adding the output ofsudo lsblk -fto your question...
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Start by adding the output ofsudo lsblk -fto your question...
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sudo lsblk -f to your question...– Simon Sudler
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Start by adding the output of
sudo lsblk -f to your question...– Simon Sudler
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Start by adding the output of
sudo lsblk -fto your question...– Simon Sudler
Apr 20 at 6:44