HI,
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
On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Matthew Navarre
navarre.matt...@gmail.comwrote:
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
On Sun, 5 Aug 2012 23:12:48 -0700, Matthew Navarre wrote:
I can probably fix the partition table using testdisk, but now that I've
got this image file I'd rather work with that instead of the physical disk.
I've read the Handbook section on using mdconfig, but that assumes the
image file is of
On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 11:28 PM, Michael Sierchio ku...@tenebras.comwrote:
On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Matthew Navarre
navarre.matt...@gmail.com wrote:
Here's what file says about the file:
mnavarre@pcbsd-1810] /# file /mnt/ada1_backup
/mnt/ada1_backup: x86 boot sector; partition
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 12:08 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
On Sun, 5 Aug 2012 23:12:48 -0700, Matthew Navarre wrote:
I can probably fix the partition table using testdisk, but now that I've
got this image file I'd rather work with that instead of the physical
disk.
I've read the
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
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 2:55 AM, Wojciech Puchar
woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote:
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
