On 26/09/17 17:31, Reco wrote:
On 26/09/17 13:01, solitone wrote:
It's strange, since it finds /dev/sda, i.e. the entire disk:
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[ 6.438693] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 188743680 512-byte logical blocks:
(96.6 GB/90.0 GiB)
[ 6.469182] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 6.482421] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache:
enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
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However, it then complains that /dev/sda1 does not exists
That's because you don't have any partitions on that disk. Partition
that's start with sector 0 is impossible.
Interesting. I used parted to create one single partition as big as the
entire file. Here's what parted shows now:
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$ /sbin/parted alan_restore.img
WARNING: You are not superuser. Watch out for permissions.
GNU Parted 3.2
Using /media/solitone/Maxtor/vmimages/alan_restore.img
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) p
Model: (file)
Disk /media/solitone/Maxtor/vmimages/alan_restore.img: 96.6GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: loop
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size File system Flags
1 0.00B 96.6GB 96.6GB ext4
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I assumed that that number 1 referred to partition n. 1, but I must be
mistaken.