Restoring Data from a DD image
Joe S
js.lists at gmail.com
Thu Oct 6 12:49:41 PDT 2005
Joe S wrote:
> 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
>
>
You may need to use /dev/vn0c instead of /dev/vn0 in both commands.
See the handbook for more info:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-virtual.html
Note: vnconfig is for 4.x, while mdconfig is for 5.x
-joe
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