OT: fdisk

[Polytropon]

On Sun, 3 Oct 2010 01:15:06 -0500, Brandon Gooch <jamesbrandongooch at gmail.com> wrote:
> I believe that the above 'if' operand to dd should instead be /dev/da1
> (without the 's1' slice). Also, the operand 'of' will need to point to
> a device, such as /dev/ad12, or a file on a mounted file system, such
> as /mnt/my_disk_image.img

A good advice. Also: You should, when in doubt, never, NEVER operate
on the disk you want to restore data from. Dump the whole disk into
a file and operate on THAT file. Use mdconfig to make it a block
device if needed.


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