On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 2:35 AM, Mike Bilow <mik...@colossus.bilow.com>wrote:
> Filesystems (and therefore "fsck" targets) reside on partitions of the > disk, something like "/dev/sdc3", rather than the entire device (or an > image of it). This is inherent in the design of the system and is > independent of the types of filesystems or how they are mixed. > > Thanks Mike, I knew that, but somehow thought that there was some magic that I didn't know or understand that would make the computer do what I wanted as opposed to what I told it to do :-) > In order to access partitions within an image file, you want the "kpartx" > utility: > > http://linux.die.net/man/8/**kpartx <http://linux.die.net/man/8/kpartx> Ahh, that's the part that was missing from all the tutorials/manpages/faqs that I've read. > > Also, those annoying Dell machines that will not boot from CD will boot > from USB Flash memory, and it is easy to make one up with SysRescueCD: > > http://www.sysresccd.org/**Sysresccd-manual-en_How_to_** > install_SystemRescueCd_on_an_**USB-stick<http://www.sysresccd.org/Sysresccd-manual-en_How_to_install_SystemRescueCd_on_an_USB-stick> > > Thanks, I plan to give that a try and I'm also going to investigate setting up a computer on USB stick for my kids. > On 2012-01-26 00:47, Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote: > >> I have an internal hard drive that won't boot. >> > [snip] > The bad drive in question is 250GB and has a number of partitions and file >> system types: >> > [snip] > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System >> /dev/sdc1 1 7 56196 de Dell Utility >> /dev/sdc2 8 1966 15728640 7 HPFS/NTFS >> /dev/sdc3 * 1966 5881 31453961 7 HPFS/NTFS >> /dev/sdc4 5882 30401 196956900 5 Extended >> /dev/sdc5 5882 29402 188932401 83 Linux >> /dev/sdc6 29403 30401 8024436 82 Linux swap / >> Solaris >> >> I succeeded in creating a copy of the Linux partition using ddrescue (also called gddrescue in Ubuntu). There were a few errors found and corrected by fsck. I'll post more details later but at this point I'm pretty happy to have my data. ~ Greg
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