Recently i had a problem with my server running ClearOS 6.4. One of the array hardrive goes down, and i had to recover what could be recovered (it wasn’t important server but users wanted to get back some data).

I have plugged usb 1TB drive, but the COS cannot mount it. The solution was easy:

1. Shell

   dmesg |tail

   1	dmesg |tail

   
   shows me that my usb drive was connected to /dev/sdb
2. Shell

   fdisk -l /dev/sdb

   1	fdisk -l /dev/sdb

   
   shows me that the partition type was HPFS/NTFS
3. next thing was to add rpmforge repo to ClearOS (i followed instructions from CentOS wiki) but i have to install wget first 🙂
   
   Shell

   yum install wget

   1	yum install wget

   
   because it wasn’t installed on my server. After that i do some things like:
   
   Shell

   wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.i686.rpm rpm --import http://apt.sw.be/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt rpm -i rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.*.rpm yum install ntfs-3g

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   wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.i686.rpm rpm --import http://apt.sw.be/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt rpm -i rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.*.rpm yum install ntfs-3g

4. After that i created a directory in /mnt
   
   
   Shell

   mkdir /mnt/usbhdd

   1	mkdir /mnt/usbhdd

   
   and then do
   
   
   Shell

   mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usbhdd

   1	mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usbhdd

After that i am trying to copy what i can from that array 🙂