On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 16:32:25 +0200 Polytropon <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 07:08:58 -0700, Robert <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have now a free 1TB drive for use. It is formatted as UFS. Should > > I remove formatting before I dd the 500GB drive to it? > > Not needed, as you're going to use it under the control of FreeBSD. > After formatting and mounting it, let's say as /mnt, use dd (or > ddrescue) to first get an 1:1 copy of the source disk. > It is being performed even as we "speak". > > > > I tried the above process and here is what I have. > > > > [r...@asus64] ~# mdconfig -a -t vnode -u 10 -f /250extra/disk.img > > [r...@asus64] ~# mount -o ro /dev/md10 /mnt > > mount: /dev/md10 : Invalid argument > > Of course. :-) > > > > > [r...@asus64] ~# mount_ntfs -o ro /dev/md10 /mnt > > mount_ntfs: /dev/md10: Input/output error > > This indicates that the NTFS seems to be damaged and prevents > mount_ntfs from mounting it. Start with "baby steps": Is there > a valid partition table? > > # fdisk /dev/md10 [r...@asus64] ~# fdisk /dev/md10 ******* Working on device /dev/md10 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=7648 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=7648 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 7 (0x07),(NTFS, OS/2 HPFS, QNX-2 (16 bit) or Advanced UNIX) start 63, size 976773105 (476939 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; end: cyl 1023/ head 15/ sector 63 The data for partition 2 is: <UNUSED> The data for partition 3 is: <UNUSED> The data for partition 4 is: <UNUSED> > > You should now get a partition table. > > Did you create disk.img by dd'ing da0 or da0s1? This may matter. da1...but not the entire disk. > > > > > [r...@asus64] ~# ls -l /dev/md* > > crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 129 Oct 4 06:43 /dev/md10 > > crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 130 Oct 4 06:43 /dev/md10s1 > > crw------- 1 root wheel 0, 66 Oct 1 14:43 /dev/mdctl > > [r...@asus64] ~# mount -o ro /dev/md10s1 /mnt > > Good. At least a bit. Is this the way to mount it, not _ntfs? > > > > > [r...@asus64] ~# ls -l /mnt > > total 0 > > [r...@asus64] ~# df -h > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > > <snip> > > /dev/ad12s1d 226G 59G 149G 28% /250extra > > /dev/md10s1 451G 32G 383G 8% /mnt > > ^^^^ ^^^ > > [r...@asus64] ~# ls -la /mnt > > total 0 > > Hmmm... you dd'ed the WHOLE disk to disk.img? Does the size look > reasonable? No. I was trying to just get the data to a 250GB drive. Now I am doing the 500GB to a 1TB drive and will follow up when complete. Robert _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
