On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Matthew Navarre <navarre.matt...@gmail.com>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 old USB drive. > There were several IO errors while dd was copying the disk, so I think the > disk is starting to go. > > 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 a filesystem, not a whole disk. I think I've > found instructions for how to do it on linux, but if there's a way to mount > it on FreeBSD I'd rather do that. > > So, any suggestions? > > Here's what file says about the file: > mnavarre@pcbsd-1810] /# file /mnt/ada1_backup > /mnt/ada1_backup: x86 boot sector; partition 1: ID=0xa5, active, starthead > 1, startsector 63, 167766732 sectors; partition 2: ID=0xa5, starthead 254, > startsector 167766795, 144809910 sectors, code offset 0x3c, BSD disklabel > > Why did you put it in /mnt? That's customarily used for mounting fileystems. Move it ;-) mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /new-path/ada1_backup note the device that's created (probably md0) you can then operate on /dev/md0 as if it were a disk. In particular, you might want to fix the partition map, the label info, etc. You can then fsck the filesystem (presumably something like /dev/md0s1a or /dev/md0a etc). You'll probably need to tell fsck that it's ufs (i.e. fsck -t ufs /dev/md0a ) you can then mount the fs (mount -t ufs /dev/md0a /mnt ) - M _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"