Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:45:31 -0400 (EDT) From: "Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET" <ml@t-b-o-h.net> To: wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (Wojciech Puchar) Cc: "Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET" <ml@t-b-o-h.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [freebsd-questions] Re: Right way to mount/edit dd of a disk? Message-ID: <200810202345.m9KNjVfF030415@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com> In-Reply-To: <20081021012041.T24350@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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> > > mount -t msdos /dev/md0s5 /mnt > > > > to be able to get the dd5 on /mnt. I then edited the files I wanted, > > replaced them, and copied back to /mnt. I did "umount /mnt" and copied the dd > > file back to where it needed to be. > > did you mdconfig -d before copying image? > Well, turns out the problem I had was elsewhere with something else, but I was slowly coming back around to having to deal with this again. (Apparently FreeBSD's tar can actually create a tar that a Linux system doesn't like...) No, I didn't. That would probably have been a good idea no matter what. Will do so in the future. But otherwise my procedure seemed sane? Thanks! Tuc
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