From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 30 13:15:32 2004 Return-Path: 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 1488D16A4CE for ; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 13:15:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from srvdmz13.oekb.co.at (srvdmz13.oekb.co.at [143.245.5.103]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C5D743D49 for ; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 13:15:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Ewald.Jenisch@oekb.at) Received: from Unknown [143.245.2.191] by srvdmz13.oekb.co.at - SurfControl E-mail Filter (4.7); Sat, 30 Oct 2004 15:15:28 +0200 Received: from athena.oekb.co.at ([143.245.83.20]) by MAIL01.oekb.co.at with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Sat, 30 Oct 2004 15:15:28 +0200 Received: from athena.oekb.co.at (athena.oekb.co.at [127.0.0.1]) by athena.oekb.co.at (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i9UDFbwo009436; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 15:15:37 +0200 Received: (from ej@localhost) by athena.oekb.co.at (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i9UDFbah009435; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 15:15:37 +0200 Message-ID: <20041030131537.GA7100@athena.oekb.co.at> From: Ewald Jenisch To: jason Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 15:15:37 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-OriginalArrivalTime: 30 Oct 2004 13:15:28.0198 (UTC) FILETIME=[86554E60:01C4BE82] References: <20041029140840.GA5085@athena.oekb.co.at> <4182C593.9090808@ec.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <4182C593.9090808@ec.rr.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Accessing partitions using FIXIT/Live-System-CDROM? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 13:15:32 -0000 On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 06:34:59PM -0400, jason wrote: > > > 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. Hi Jason, Thanks much for the hint! Unfortunately my data is on a SCSI disk. Nevertheless I found the solution myself in the meantime: The reason I couldn't mount the partitions, even after generating device nodes for them (like ad0s1e,...) was that I didn't do a fsck first. The solution came to me after I discovered that I could mount the partitions readonly, but not r/w. So I fsck-ed them, with fsck fixing some things then I could mount the partitions. Thanks neverthelss for the hint with atacontrol - I'll keep in in my records since you never know when disaster strikes again... Cheers, -ewald