Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 18:34:59 -0400 From: jason <jason@ec.rr.com> To: Ewald Jenisch <a@jenisch.at> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Accessing partitions using FIXIT/Live-System-CDROM? Message-ID: <4182C593.9090808@ec.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <20041029140840.GA5085@athena.oekb.co.at> References: <20041029140840.GA5085@athena.oekb.co.at>
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Ewald Jenisch wrote: >Hi, > >After wiping out my system :-(, i.e. the root-partition and parts of >/usr I'd like to rescue any data that might be left on the machine, >like /home, /var etc. > >So I booted with the "Live-CDROM" (#2) and went to the Fixit Menu >item. > >However I can't mount any paritions beside the original root-partition. > >To be specifc: > >My harddisk basically is one FreeBSD-slice, da0. da0 is divided into >several partitions like da0s1a (root), da0s1h (home) etc. > >Using the live-system CD (fixit) I can do > >mount /dev/da0s1 /mnt (note it's da0s1, not da0s1a as I'd expected) > >However when trying to mount another partition (like "h") I get the >following error: > >mount /dev/da0s1h /mnt3 >mount: /dev/da0s1h: Operation not permitted > >Since there was no entry in /dev for da0s1h (only for da0s1, the >complete slice), I set one up with mknod. This entry is exactly the >same (major/minor) as the corresponding entry in my original >/dev/da0s1h had which at that time is mounted as /mnt/dev. > >Even when having an entry for the partition in question (da0s1h in the >example) I cant' mount that partition. > >Sure enough the data still seems to be there - the question for me is >how do I mount these partitions so I can get the data off the machine >before installing it from scratch? > >Thanks much in advance for any clue, >-ewald > > >_______________________________________________ >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" > > > Search the current archives for a new feature with atacontrol, I think its in this program. It will scan a disk and recover any data it can. Sounds like what you need.
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