Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 17:58:11 -0500 (EST) From: Frank Tobin <ftobin@neverending.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recovering normal partition from vinum Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0211051756260.10888-100000@palanthas.neverending.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0211051353380.9663-100000@palanthas.neverending.org>
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Frank Tobin, on 2002-11-05, wrote: > I'm trying to recover as much data as possible from a vinum partition > that was on top of a faulty hd. To make sure vinum doesn't wipe > anything accidentally, I'd like to get access to it as a normal fbsd > partition or slice. Is it possible to tell dd to read the vinum > partition, skip N amount of blocks (the vinum header), and have a normal > FreeBSD partition or slice left? Just a followup; I found that the first 265 blocks are 'vinum' info, so skipping those blocks and writing out the rest to a file using dd, and then using vnconfig to mount the file, allows access. -- Frank Tobin http://www.neverending.org/~ftobin/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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