accessing foreign disk

[sahaj bahra]

I have a hard disk which i got from another system and now i want to access it on my hp-ux server to see the data present inside.I donot have the map file. How can i access this disk?

[SANTOSH S. MHASKAR]

Hi,

Pl. provide following info.

1] Platform, OS of both systems.

2] The disk management utility (LVM, VxVM etc.),file system on disk.

3] Type of Hard Disk (SCSI etc.)
-Santosh

[Peter Godron · Accepted solution]

Hi,
further info is required on what sort of system this disk comes from and what the filesystem is.

But in principle:
mkdir /dev/vgxx
mknod /dev/vgxx/group c 64 0x010000
The 010000 should be one higher than the number of VGs you currently have, counting from 0.
vgimport /dev/vgxx /dev/dsk/c?t?d?
Check vgxx for lvols
vgchange -a y /dev/vgxx
mkdir /lvol1
mount /dev/vgxx/lvol1 /lvol1

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[sahaj bahra]

Thanks peter, that was a real neat one.

[sahaj bahra]

Thanks