Mounting raw disk backup file.
Wojciech Puchar
wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl
Mon Aug 6 09:55:56 UTC 2012
> I had a drive fail recently, it was working fine until I rebooted. After
> that the partition map was corrupt and I can't mount either partition on
> the disk. So I made a copy of the whole disk using dd to an old USB drive.
> There were several IO errors while dd was copying the disk, so I think the
> disk is starting to go.
did you use conv=sync,noerror.
if not your backup is quite corrupted if errors were uncorrectable.
>
> So, any suggestions?
>
repair partition table, use mdconfig and then you will get
/dev/md0
/dev/md0s1...
as with real drive
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