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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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