From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 6 14: 5:16 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 7B1E537B401 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 14:05:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from firefly.lemis.com (CPE-203-51-24-236.nsw.bigpond.net.au [203.51.24.236]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19A1F43E42 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 14:05:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@firefly.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by firefly.lemis.com (8.11.3/8.9.3) id gA6M4r500613; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 08:34:53 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 08:34:52 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Frank Tobin Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recovering normal partition from vinum Message-ID: <20021107083452.A592@firefly.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from ftobin@neverending.org on Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 05:58:11PM -0500 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 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 On Tuesday, 5 November 2002 at 17:58:11 -0500, Frank Tobin wrote: > 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. Well, first this only works with a plex with a single subdisk, which also makes it concatenated. Under those circumstances, you just need to map a partition to correspond with the position of the subdisk on the disk. No copying or extra space required. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message