My Linux desktop machine appears to have done what can only be described as "blowing an O-ring". The machine is really stuffed. Started off behaving funny, yesterday it was freezing some and today it simply doesn't power on. It feels like logic board failure on the most epic level. Annoyingly, I was also halfway through doing my tax.
I needed to get my files off. Unfortunately the disk is SATA (I don't own a SATA caddy), and is formatted with LVM and ext3. I also needed enough disk space to store the contents.
Thankfully Alex had a SATA to USB widget, all I needed was power. I supplied this by cracking open a USB CD burner, which is just a drive in a 5 1/4 inch bay. Then used a SATA/molex power widget. Ok, so I can plug the disk into another computer, I should be there... unfortunately that computer is a Mac.
No worries I think, just use Ubuntu from VMware and forward the USB disk. From there I can probe the LVM, mount my home volume and rsync it back onto the Mac's HDD. Easy!
yes, it's plugged in via the keyboardI feel like there should be awards for hacks like this.
