disklabel recovery

[Arne Wörner]

--- Gal Ben-Haim <gbenhaim at gmail.com> wrote:
> meanwhile I did a 'dd' image of the drive to a network drive and
> formatted the hd, I needed the system up again.
> 
> what can I do with that 'dd' image in order to restore atleast
> some of the data on that drive ?
>
1. You could just dd the image back to the freshly sliced disc and
then do a "fsck -f" (forced check even if it is marked clean).

2. You could try to fsck the image via
# mdconfig -a -t vnode -f <network image>
# fsck -f /dev/md<unit number>
# mount /dev/md<unit number> /mnt
# ls /mnt/.

-Arne



	
		
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