From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 3 20:46:21 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29F3E16A420 for ; Sat, 3 Nov 2007 20:46:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdrukman@gmail.com) Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com (fk-out-0910.google.com [209.85.128.191]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 905C713C4B3 for ; Sat, 3 Nov 2007 20:46:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdrukman@gmail.com) Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b27so1316689fka for ; Sat, 03 Nov 2007 13:45:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=MMZ9J0AW/PM5uvr/cbVrHnvFZA8QpkK/75LvGnuAZ2A=; b=tPLd/j0FlV8n1gYekKWMW8BiC6uYChv/HeT44QtT2lnI9uX4Okgxf7ULJU7AFvuPVvfs+SSXU1AeirGNfKluth9K1a7Vptf79qenj2ABGnR5s/sojWu/uSr4xajCG/dfoImnADEhpEWJ++meED/EeElF3dXGYa95m58bjTkGlcI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=kaVI6IoQLQwGeL1q+hEJja3K+VhkHmfN7g40tKl8o+a9Oaxoe3sno+XQ5l4BrmgQg1LhFeXlvdkRpHdr9zIZMTmzVuHI973bojudQGF/SL5AiPnuFi4sFaAGInM9DaxysTdsmeZPIxI8MXWvZIelKl79z2vnuWaXW0qPbND5ir4= Received: by 10.82.190.2 with SMTP id n2mr6313543buf.1194122335013; Sat, 03 Nov 2007 13:38:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.166.7 with HTTP; Sat, 3 Nov 2007 13:38:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 13:38:54 -0700 From: "Jon Drukman" To: "Warren Block" In-Reply-To: <20071103102115.B8947@wonkity.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200711030122.17441.lists@jnielsen.net> <20071103102115.B8947@wonkity.com> Cc: John Nielsen , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting/examining 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: Sat, 03 Nov 2007 20:46:21 -0000 On Nov 3, 2007 9:23 AM, Warren Block wrote: > vnconfig is the predecessor of mdconfig. It should be present in 4.9. thanks, it is. however, i am unable to mount the vnconfig'd device. any ideas? i made the backup originally just by doing dd if=/dev/ad0 of=some.file then i ran vnconfig vn0 some.file if i dd /dev/ad0 i see all the boot sector stuff, etc. however i can't use disklabel or mount. # disklabel -r vn0 disklabel: bad pack magic number (label is damaged, or pack is unlabeled) # disklabel -r vn0a disklabel: bad pack magic number (label is damaged, or pack is unlabeled) # disklabel -r vn0b disklabel: bad pack magic number (label is damaged, or pack is unlabeled) # mount /dev/vn0s1a /mnt mount: /dev/vn0s1a on /mnt: incorrect super block it seems like the data is there but i don't know how to access it. 00000000 fc 31 c0 8e c0 8e d8 8e d0 bc 00 7c be 1a 7c bf |.1.........|..|.| 00000010 1a 06 b9 e6 01 f3 a4 e9 00 8a 31 f6 bb be 07 b1 |..........1.....| 00000020 04 38 2f 74 08 7f 78 85 f6 75 74 89 de 80 c3 10 |.8/t..x..ut.....| 00000030 e2 ef 85 f6 75 02 cd 18 80 fa 80 72 0b 8a 36 75 |....u......r..6u| 00000040 04 80 c6 80 38 f2 72 02 8a 14 89 e7 8a 74 01 8b |....8.r......t..| 00000050 4c 02 bb 00 7c 80 fe ff 75 32 83 f9 ff 75 2d 51 |L...|...u2...u-Q| 00000060 53 bb aa 55 b4 41 cd 13 72 20 81 fb 55 aa 75 1a |S..U.A..r ..U.u.| 00000070 f6 c1 01 74 15 5b 66 6a 00 66 ff 74 08 06 53 6a |...t.[fj.f.t..Sj| 00000080 01 6a 10 89 e6 b8 00 42 eb 05 5b 59 b8 01 02 cd |.j.....B..[Y....| 00000090 13 89 fc 72 0f 81 bf fe 01 55 aa 75 0c ff e3 be |...r.....U.u....| 000000a0 bc 06 eb 11 be d4 06 eb 0c be f3 06 eb 07 bb 07 |................| 000000b0 00 b4 0e cd 10 ac 84 c0 75 f4 eb fe 49 6e 76 61 |........u...Inva| 000000c0 6c 69 64 20 70 61 72 74 69 74 69 6f 6e 20 74 61 |lid partition ta| 000000d0 62 6c 65 00 45 72 72 6f 72 20 6c 6f 61 64 69 6e |ble.Error loadin| 000000e0 67 20 6f 70 65 72 61 74 69 6e 67 20 73 79 73 74 |g operating syst| 000000f0 65 6d 00 4d 69 73 73 69 6e 67 20 6f 70 65 72 61 |em.Missing opera| 00000100 74 69 6e 67 20 73 79 73 74 65 6d 00 00 00 00 00 |ting system.....| 00000110 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|