From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 5 14:58: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DF9F37B401 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 14:58:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from palanthas.neverending.org (palanthas.neverending.org [167.206.208.232]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1579543E75 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 14:58:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ftobin@neverending.org) Received: by palanthas.neverending.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4393120528; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 17:58:11 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palanthas.neverending.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4206A2050E for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 17:58:11 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 17:58:11 -0500 (EST) From: Frank Tobin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recovering normal partition from vinum In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-Bogus: aaron7@neverending.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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