Mounting HD from Live CD

[Aaron Gray]

How do I mount an old F21 HD which I have lost the password and work
on using a F21 Live CD please ?

Many thanks in advance,

Aaron

[Chris Murphy]

On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Aaron Gray <aaronngray.lists(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  How do I mount an old F21 HD which I have lost the password and work
>  on using a F21 Live CD please ? 
The question is vague, can you be more specific? Is this drive
encrypted and you're talking about the encryption passphrase? Or
you're talking about the login passphrase? If the former, there is no
way to break that encryption. If the latter, then just mount it
normally and copy off what you want to keep - you don't even need to
do this with live media, any Fedora installation can do this and
bypass the user login. You might have to use sudo cp to copy the
contents of files for which your new user doesn't have permissions
for; and then fix that with:

sudo chown -R chris:chris /path/to/files/

where chris is whatever the login+owner name is on your current system.

-- 
Chris Murphy

[Aaron Gray]

non encrypted volume


On 12 July 2015 at 21:36, Chris Murphy <lists(a)colorremedies.com&gt; wrote:
>  On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Aaron Gray
> <aaronngray.lists(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
> > How do I mount an old F21 HD which I have lost the password and work
> > on using a F21 Live CD please ?
>
>  The question is vague, can you be more specific? Is this drive
>  encrypted and you're talking about the encryption passphrase? Or
>  you're talking about the login passphrase? If the former, there is no
>  way to break that encryption. If the latter, then just mount it
>  normally and copy off what you want to keep - you don't even need to
>  do this with live media, any Fedora installation can do this and
>  bypass the user login. You might have to use sudo cp to copy the
>  contents of files for which your new user doesn't have permissions
>  for; and then fix that with:
>
>  sudo chown -R chris:chris /path/to/files/
>
>  where chris is whatever the login+owner name is on your current system.
>
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[Aaron Gray]

I just need to mount an unencrypted F"! volume on a Live F21 Distro

On 12 July 2015 at 22:07, Aaron Gray <aaronngray.lists(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  non encrypted volume
>
>
>  On 12 July 2015 at 21:36, Chris Murphy <lists(a)colorremedies.com&gt; wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Aaron Gray <aaronngray.lists(a)gmail.com&gt;
> wrote:
> >> How do I mount an old F21 HD which I have lost the password and work
> >> on using a F21 Live CD please ?
> >
> > The question is vague, can you be more specific? Is this drive
> > encrypted and you're talking about the encryption passphrase? Or
> > you're talking about the login passphrase? If the former, there is no
> > way to break that encryption. If the latter, then just mount it
> > normally and copy off what you want to keep - you don't even need to
> > do this with live media, any Fedora installation can do this and
> > bypass the user login. You might have to use sudo cp to copy the
> > contents of files for which your new user doesn't have permissions
> > for; and then fix that with:
> >
> > sudo chown -R chris:chris /path/to/files/
> >
> > where chris is whatever the login+owner name is on your current system.
> >
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[JD]

On 07/12/2015 03:08 PM, Aaron Gray wrote:
>  I just need to mount an unencrypted F"! volume on a Live F21
> Distro
>
>  On 12 July 2015 at 22:07, Aaron Gray <aaronngray.lists(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
> > non encrypted volume
> >
> >
> > On 12 July 2015 at 21:36, Chris Murphy <lists(a)colorremedies.com&gt; wrote:
> >> On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Aaron Gray <aaronngray.lists(a)gmail.com&gt;
> wrote:
> >>> How do I mount an old F21 HD which I have lost the password and work
> >>> on using a F21 Live CD please ?
> >> The question is vague, can you be more specific? Is this drive
> >> encrypted and you're talking about the encryption passphrase? Or
> >> you're talking about the login passphrase? If the former, there is no
> >> way to break that encryption. If the latter, then just mount it
> >> normally and copy off what you want to keep - you don't even need to
> >> do this with live media, any Fedora installation can do this and
> >> bypass the user login. You might have to use sudo cp to copy the
> >> contents of files for which your new user doesn't have permissions
> >> for; and then fix that with:
> >>
> >> sudo chown -R chris:chris /path/to/files/
> >>
> >> where chris is whatever the login+owner name is on your current system.
> >>
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> >> Chris Murphy
> >> --
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What is the
pathname of the volume , starting with /dev ?
If you have that pasthanme, then
you should be able to run
mount -t <fstype> <absolute-volume-pathname>
<absolute-mount-point-pathname>

You will have to be root to do so.

Also, check and see if your DT already mounted it in 
/run/<username>/....etc/...

[Mike Wright]

On 07/12/2015 02:08 PM, Aaron Gray wrote:
>  I just need to mount an unencrypted F"! volume on a Live F21
> Distro 
Easy task at hand.

If the drive has more than one partition you'll have to do this for each 
one.

sudo mount /dev/sd?# /mnt  (e.g. /dev/sdb4)

rsync -a /mnt/ /path/to/destination

umount /mnt

[Aaron Gray]

Cheers Mike. I did try mounting previously but did not work will try
again tomorrow.

On 12 July 2015 at 22:39, Mike Wright <nobody(a)nospam.hostisimo.com&gt; wrote:
>  On 07/12/2015 02:08 PM, Aaron Gray wrote:
> >
> > I just need to mount an unencrypted F"! volume on a Live F21 Distro
>
>
>  Easy task at hand.
>
>  If the drive has more than one partition you'll have to do this for each
>  one.
>
>  sudo mount /dev/sd?# /mnt  (e.g. /dev/sdb4)
>
>  rsync -a /mnt/ /path/to/destination
>
>  umount /mnt
>
>
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[Heinz Diehl]

On 13.07.2015, Aaron Gray wrote: 

>  Cheers Mike. I did try mounting previously but did not work will try
>  again tomorrow. 
If you want proper help, please post the output of your mount attempt, e.g.

mkdir /test
mount /dev/sdX /test

Where "X" is the proper partition/device number.