Am 04.11.2012 18:46, schrieb Alan Feuerbacher:
I have many files on the 32-bit disk that I'd like to be able to access on the new 64-bit system, but so far I have not been able to mount the old disk. I've tried various "mount" commands with no success. I don't really understand the error messages when I try to mount the old disk.
first: there is no difference in the filesystem between i686/x86_64
[root@alan-fedora alan]# mount /dev/sdc /mnt/fedora32 mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so
/dev/sdc != /dev/sdc1
why do you try to mount the whole disk instead a partitionwith a filesystem on it?
I think that one thing that's happening is that the LVM software is getting confused by the fact that both the 32-bit and 64-bit installations have the same names for the LVM volumes (or whatever the proper terminology is). But I don't know what to do to straighten out the confusion
that may be, but above you do NOT try to access any LVM you try to mount the whole disk