From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JidO9-0002jI-2h for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2008 22:31:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E6BF0E0534; Sun, 6 Apr 2008 22:30:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.pipni.cz (mail.pipni.cz [193.86.238.3]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B53DCE0534 for ; Sun, 6 Apr 2008 22:30:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.pipni.cz ([193.86.238.3] helo=xvalheru.org) id 1JidO7-0007yi-0V for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:30:59 +0200 From: "pat" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] mounting disk image Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 00:30:53 +0200 Message-Id: <20080406223006.M16539@xvalheru.org> In-Reply-To: <200804070024.55962.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> References: <20080406205726.M53986@xvalheru.org> <200804070007.58617.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <20080406221244.M23550@xvalheru.org> <200804070024.55962.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Mailer: OpenWebMail 2.52 20061019 X-OriginatingIP: 62.245.88.216 (pat@xvalheru.org) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 200f2915-e31d-476f-96fe-e3ac301c5b19 X-Archives-Hash: 641831abcdb7f2f2def0e08e97f7003a On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 00:24:55 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote > On Monday 07 April 2008, pat wrote: > > > Well, yes and no :-( The partition table of the original table has > > crashed, so I've created the ISO image of the disk and now playing > > with it ... but, the original drive is still untouched. So, I should > > play with hard drive directly instead using the dd copy? To partition > > table recovery in the ISO image I've used the testdisk utility. > > > > Any suggestions? > > To be safe I would mount the .iso devices read-only till you are > sure you have found the correct offsets. Only use the original disk > if you really have no other option > > -- > Alan McKinnon > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com > > -- > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list OK. Thanks. Pat -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list