Redhat 7.0 and 8 file compatibility

[Scott Prive]

There are no known filesys compatibility issues between RedHat 7.x and 8.0. They are technically different filesystems, but ext3 in RH8 simply extends the base ext2 system. You can mount ext3 volumes in older Red Hat (you'll lose your journal, but the point is the underlying filesystem is still compatible).

Your problem is something else, and there is not enough information to do more than guess.

Is the drive known to be valid? For example:
 Can you plug it back into your old server to verify it? 
 If that's not convenient, plug it into another test server -- can you boot off it? 

I hope everything is OK for you, but you should backup your drive anyways, especially when sending it off (in this case I would have just cloned the drive using dd.. you'd keep the original copy and be certain of it's condition). It doesn't take much to kill a drive: static electricity, dropped, frozen overnight in a car trunk, etc. 

Good luck. Post more data if you can.

-Scott


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hugh Rutledge [mailto:hughrutledge2001 at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 3:36 PM
> To: Brian Medley
> Subject: Re: Redhat 7.0 and 8 file compatibility
> 
> 
> Mainboard reports that they can plug the harddrive
> from the damaged server into their Samba Server but
> that their Samba Server then reads the harddrive as
> containing no data--  no directory structure or file
> structure is found at all.  
> 
> I don't have information about their Samba Server, 
> but I can get it if it is going to help.
> 
> Hugh
> 
> 
> --- Brian Medley <bpmedley at 4321.tv> wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 11:07:03AM -0800, Hugh
> > Rutledge wrote:
> > 
> > > I arranged for Mainboard Computers to build a new
> > www
> > > server for my company and they agreed to transfer
> > the
> > > data from the old server as part of the order. 
> > The
> > > old server is rebooting only on init=/bin/bash and
> > > they planned on using their samba server to
> > transfer
> > > the data but the data won't read on their samba
> > > server,  only on the redhat 7.0 old server we're
> > > replacing.  Is this a problem other redhat users
> > have
> > > encountered?  Is there any recommended solution?
> > 
> > We really need more information.  What tools are you
> > using to transfer the
> > data?  What error messages are you seeing?
> > 
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