Hi,
I have a disk that I want to recover the VMDK images from. It is seen as a device in ESX 5 but not as a datastore.
Can someone suggest a way I get ESX to see the disk below as a datastore? Or a way I can access the images from the disk?
~ # fdisk -l
Disk /dev/disks/t10.ATA_____SAMSUNG_HD103SI_________________________S1Y5J1CS204626______: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 953869 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/disks/t10.ATA_____SAMSUNG_HD103SI_________________________S1Y5J1CS204626______p1 * 1 4 4080 4 FAT16 <32M
/dev/disks/t10.ATA_____SAMSUNG_HD103SI_________________________S1Y5J1CS204626______p2 5 900 917504 5 Extended
/dev/disks/t10.ATA_____SAMSUNG_HD103SI_________________________S1Y5J1CS204626______p3 901 4995 4193280 6 FAT16
/dev/disks/t10.ATA_____SAMSUNG_HD103SI_________________________S1Y5J1CS204626______p4 4996 953870 971647704 fb VMFS
/dev/disks/t10.ATA_____SAMSUNG_HD103SI_________________________S1Y5J1CS204626______p5 5 254 255984 6 FAT16
/dev/disks/t10.ATA_____SAMSUNG_HD103SI_________________________S1Y5J1CS204626______p6 255 504 255984 6 FAT16
/dev/disks/t10.ATA_____SAMSUNG_HD103SI_________________________S1Y5J1CS204626______p7 505 614 112624 fc VMKcore
/dev/disks/t10.ATA_____SAMSUNG_HD103SI_________________________S1Y5J1CS204626______p8 615 900 292848 6 FAT16
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!