From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from nm27-vm0.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com (nm27-vm0.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com [66.94.236.227]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1FBDD1007D1 for ; Mon, 19 Sep 2011 05:21:54 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <4E7644C9.4070802@ameritech.net> Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 15:21:45 -0400 From: "F. Heitkamp" MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Subject: mount file system using offset. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Hi, First of all please accept my apologies for posting to this list on this particular topic, but it was the closest match I could find. I pulled the harddisk out of my ps3, because I have forgotten the root password on the linux partition. After spending some time googling I see that the harddisk is encrypted and there are no linux utilities that can read/write it. However I did find that the "testdisk" program finds the linux partitions on the disk (see below.). It seems I should be able to mount the partitions on my linux pc box somehow since I now know their location on the disk. Does anyone know how one might go about that? Thanks! Fred TestDisk 6.12, Data Recovery Utility, May 2011 Christophe GRENIER http://www.cgsecurity.org Disk /dev/sdc - 80 GB / 74 GiB - CHS 9729 255 63 The harddisk (80 GB / 74 GiB) seems too small! (< 13 TB / 11 TiB) Check the harddisk size: HD jumpers settings, BIOS detection... The following partition can't be recovered: Partition Start End Size in sectors > Linux SWAP 2 9675 127 42 1593896 192 5 25450514424 TestDisk 6.12, Data Recovery Utility, May 2011 Christophe GRENIER http://www.cgsecurity.org Disk /dev/sdc - 80 GB / 74 GiB - CHS 9729 255 63 Partition Start End Size in sectors >P ext3 1566 128 42 1579 127 35 208776 [/boot] P ext3 1579 127 42 9675 127 41 130062240 [/]