Restoring Data from a DD image
Joe S
js.lists at gmail.com
Thu Oct 6 12:46:47 PDT 2005
Bill Schmitt (SW) wrote:
> I've just replaced a hard disk that was dying fast. I've done a full
> installation of 4.9 (later releases won't install, which I've submitted
> a problem report on already). The old disk is connected but not mounted.
> Searching around, I found some suggestions to try to read the old disk
> to restore what I can and I used dd to copy what could be found (dd
> -if=/dev/ad0s1e of=/usr/olddsk/oldimag.dmg conv=noerror,sync) and it
> seems to have copied the file. Now, I'm a little stuck. Can someone help
> me understand how do I mount that image somewhere to browse it and copy
> what I can from it? If I'm not going about this the right way, I'd
> appreciate other suggestions
>
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man vnconfig
man mount
This may work:
# vnconfig /dev/vn0 /usr/olddsk/oldimag.dmg
# mount /dev/vn0 /some_mount_point_on_your_system
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