From your image, the HDD is sda. sda1 through sda6 are the partitions on it.
sda1: Not sure what that is. Maybe a bootloader of some sort. UEFI partition? Your GUI has automatically mounted so you can view its contents
sda2: Probably windows system related.
sda3: That's most likely the C: drive from a windows installation. Again it has been automatically mounted for you.
sda4: exactly what the image says it is (the windows OS recovery partition)
sda6: Dunno. Dunno why there is no sda5 either.
My gut feeling is that the drive has been pulled from a WIndows PC without any further modification. Most of the data you might want is almost certainly in the sda3 partition.
mmcblk0 is your SD card.
mmcblk0p1 is the boot partition.
mmcblk0p2 is the root (or OS) partition.
As for your mount commands, there's a few things wrong there:
You really need to do some more reading about drives, partitions, formats, and file systems before you go any further. Especially if the existing data is of value to you.
As your intention is to build a NAS, you might want to look at [shameless self promotion] viewtopic.php?t=327444 [/shameless self promotion] as well as my fstab guide that DS256 already linked to.
sda1: Not sure what that is. Maybe a bootloader of some sort. UEFI partition? Your GUI has automatically mounted so you can view its contents
sda2: Probably windows system related.
sda3: That's most likely the C: drive from a windows installation. Again it has been automatically mounted for you.
sda4: exactly what the image says it is (the windows OS recovery partition)
sda6: Dunno. Dunno why there is no sda5 either.
My gut feeling is that the drive has been pulled from a WIndows PC without any further modification. Most of the data you might want is almost certainly in the sda3 partition.
mmcblk0 is your SD card.
mmcblk0p1 is the boot partition.
mmcblk0p2 is the root (or OS) partition.
As for your mount commands, there's a few things wrong there:
- You don't normally mount something to a sub directory of /dev. /dev/is a special purpose directory for files relating directly to hardware devices. Any changes made ther will be lost at the next boot.
- Your first mount command is trying to mount the raw device. That won't work. Even if it weren't already mounted.
- Your second mount command is trying to mount an ext4 filesystem as FAT. That won't work either. Even if it weren't already mounted.
You really need to do some more reading about drives, partitions, formats, and file systems before you go any further. Especially if the existing data is of value to you.
As your intention is to build a NAS, you might want to look at [shameless self promotion] viewtopic.php?t=327444 [/shameless self promotion] as well as my fstab guide that DS256 already linked to.
Statistics: Posted by thagrol — Sat Jan 11, 2025 1:24 am