From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 3 06:15:08 2010 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 143BC106564A for ; Sun, 3 Oct 2010 06:15:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f50.google.com (mail-ww0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AB718FC08 for ; Sun, 3 Oct 2010 06:15:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwb17 with SMTP id 17so5544849wwb.31 for ; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 23:15:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=o4nBGIDHv5tguVceMBnt0BYPGjsq8bxTYpzOKBDRgL8=; b=LRgM6MBDhb4gZsG8IF8divE1ZPKbdts5jBj6Vuded3yKyQP8aMtEFWW10/oocRN3kY vgwU7MJSSTqPlaChebYzcE8084fcV2rRkWZaqC5YCE3wbM5oqXQNaakt2nQpZT3xTe/n PLpeh8p2yLQW/u77X+5l0OvF9+nV6JW2qutnI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=JRY1wQxCDymW5ihAUODgqJVx9Wm2T3jMmhoVa7Sl2ii8Gy2f9ifUixeh3m06jt/ger 34E0qwlgyNgJyYS78edSeDCOfBit+30wRoga747U1+yJqL0R7jw6qQJzhd62Sf2vV3yP y8/7SezULILn52E1FJxDKt3mDHfXRrxZTmEz8= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.70.10 with SMTP id o10mr6324112wed.83.1286086506200; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 23:15:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.133.133 with HTTP; Sat, 2 Oct 2010 23:15:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20101002194502.24e0f9da@asus64> References: <20101002113640.2ab36871@asus64> <20101002165150.01e0cac0@asus64> <20101002194502.24e0f9da@asus64> Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2010 01:15:06 -0500 Message-ID: From: Brandon Gooch To: Robert Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: OT: fdisk 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: Sun, 03 Oct 2010 06:15:08 -0000 On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Robert wrote: > On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 19:09:27 -0600 (MDT) > Warren Block wrote: > > >> It's weird that da1 can be mounted, but da1s1 can't. =A0Maybe a problem >> with the filesystem. =A0Might be repairable, although probably it would >> need proprietary programs. =A0Don't experiment with the original drive, >> make a copy with dd for experimenting. > > Warren > > I should have mentioned that before. dd was the first thing I tried. > I had an unused drive setup as UFS. Then did > > dd if=3D/dev/da1s1 of=3D/dev/ad12s1d bs=3D1m count=3D2000 I believe that the above 'if' operand to dd should instead be /dev/da1 (without the 's1' slice). Also, the operand 'of' will need to point to a device, such as /dev/ad12, or a file on a mounted file system, such as /mnt/my_disk_image.img -Brandon