From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 6 19:46:47 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org 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 3C8B016A41F for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 19:46:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from js.lists@gmail.com) Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C62DA43D45 for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 19:46:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from js.lists@gmail.com) Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id t15so340158wxc for ; Thu, 06 Oct 2005 12:46:46 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=NGy+4jU63cVTal44g4KKNHqAtiChmikD5/gb6A/968GJaYwUAt7G9KwPuLyz1IyTNcxlg6A62/ojzNkLR4kv8klOPdJ3XjbxxpKS5XKA1EsFlN2Lf1kKi5fyl1GJAaU4bIVp7U6Gv2C7XvBKe0XYv1lP/vQUU+ydeoyFvcZkCdY= Received: by 10.70.117.1 with SMTP id p1mr1577676wxc; Thu, 06 Oct 2005 12:46:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?10.100.58.100? ( [204.176.49.25]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id i34sm229923wxd.2005.10.06.12.46.41; Thu, 06 Oct 2005 12:46:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <43457F1D.8080807@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 12:46:37 -0700 From: Joe S User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Bill Schmitt (SW)" References: <434568BB.9090904@schmittnet.com> In-Reply-To: <434568BB.9090904@schmittnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Restoring Data from a DD image X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 19:46:47 -0000 Bill Schmitt (SW) wrote: > I've just replaced a hard disk that was dying fast. I've done a full > installation of 4.9 (later releases won't install, which I've submitted > a problem report on already). The old disk is connected but not mounted. > Searching around, I found some suggestions to try to read the old disk > to restore what I can and I used dd to copy what could be found (dd > -if=/dev/ad0s1e of=/usr/olddsk/oldimag.dmg conv=noerror,sync) and it > seems to have copied the file. Now, I'm a little stuck. Can someone help > me understand how do I mount that image somewhere to browse it and copy > what I can from it? If I'm not going about this the right way, I'd > appreciate other suggestions > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > man vnconfig man mount This may work: # vnconfig /dev/vn0 /usr/olddsk/oldimag.dmg # mount /dev/vn0 /some_mount_point_on_your_system