How to mount the usb stick with old raspbian?

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I have cloned my SD card content (old Raspbian used on Raspberry Pi 2) with Win32diskimager to the USB stick. Then I have booted my new raspberry Pi 3 with a new freshly on SD card installed Raspbian. Now I would like to copy the user data from my old system (cloned to usb disk) into the new system.

I inserted into raspberry pi 3 the both devices SD Card and USB Stick. After booting, I could mount SDA1 as VFAT partition. There I could see some files, which I was also able to see in windows (I think it was NOOBS installation), but I can not find the EXT4 partition (in a list of partitions) with my old Raspbian.

What should I do to copy my user data from old Raspbian into new Raspbian?

PiUser99

Posted 2016-10-21T09:21:14.700

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Did you need to use windows to copy your data from the USB , or using ubuntu? – GAD3R – 2016-10-21T09:29:33.677

1I can use all three operating systems: Raspbian, Windows, ubuntu. But it would be better to achieve it with Raspbian. – PiUser99 – 2016-10-21T09:33:47.937

Answers

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How to mount the usb stick with old raspbian?

Under linux system you can mount an external drive as follows:

Use the command sudo fdisk -l to check the partition (e,g sdb= your USB)

Create a mount point :

mkdir /mnt/my_usb

Mount your usb:

sudo mount /dev/sdb/mnt/my_usb

Change direcory to /mnt/my_usb , you will find your data

GAD3R

Posted 2016-10-21T09:21:14.700

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I have already done it. But after that I can see only VFAT partition of USB stick with NOOBS files. I cannot find EXT4 partition with my old Raspbian :( – PiUser99 – 2016-10-21T09:45:34.910

Please add the output of fdisk -l – GAD3R – 2016-10-21T09:49:58.440

1sorry, was my mistake, I used "fdisk -l" without "sudo", and there was no information about my devices... Now I mounted my usb stick successfully. Thanks – PiUser99 – 2016-10-21T10:51:35.133

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