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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] mounting disk image
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 00:24:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200804070024.55962.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080406221244.M23550@xvalheru.org>

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



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Alan McKinnon
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-06 22:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-06 21:03 [gentoo-user] mounting disk image pat
2008-04-06 21:16 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-04-06 21:54   ` pat
2008-04-06 22:07     ` Alan McKinnon
2008-04-06 22:17       ` pat
2008-04-06 22:24         ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2008-04-06 22:30           ` pat
2008-04-06 22:18       ` Andrey Falko
2008-04-06 22:25         ` pat
2008-04-06 21:19 ` Andrey Falko
2008-04-06 21:52   ` pat
2008-04-07  4:38 ` Stroller
2008-04-07 11:10   ` David Relson

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