Accessing partitions using FIXIT/Live-System-CDROM?

[jason]

Ewald Jenisch wrote:

>Hi,
>
>After wiping out my system :-(, i.e. the root-partition and parts of
>/usr I'd like to rescue any data that might be left on the machine,
>like /home, /var etc.
>
>So I booted with the "Live-CDROM" (#2) and went to the Fixit Menu
>item.
>
>However I can't mount any paritions beside the original root-partition.
>
>To be specifc:
>
>My harddisk basically is one FreeBSD-slice, da0. da0 is divided into
>several partitions like da0s1a (root), da0s1h (home) etc.
>
>Using the live-system CD (fixit) I can do 
>
>mount /dev/da0s1 /mnt (note it's da0s1, not da0s1a as I'd expected)
>
>However when trying to mount another partition (like "h") I get the
>following error:
>
>mount /dev/da0s1h /mnt3
>mount: /dev/da0s1h: Operation not permitted
>
>Since there was no entry in /dev for da0s1h (only for da0s1, the
>complete slice), I set one up with mknod. This entry is exactly the
>same (major/minor) as the corresponding entry in my original
>/dev/da0s1h had which at that time is mounted as /mnt/dev.
>
>Even when having an entry for the partition in question (da0s1h in the
>example) I cant' mount that partition.
>
>Sure enough the data still seems to be there - the question for me is
>how do I mount these partitions so I can get the data off the machine
>before installing it from scratch?
>
>Thanks much in advance for any clue,
>-ewald
>
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Search the current archives for a new feature with atacontrol, I think 
its in this program.  It will scan a disk and recover any data it can.  
Sounds like what you need.