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* Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt USB pen drive
  @ 2007-05-17 22:27 99%     ` Etaoin Shrdlu
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From: Etaoin Shrdlu @ 2007-05-17 22:27 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

On Thursday 17 May 2007 18:04, Mick wrote:

> > Thanks Dan, as I said above I tried to extract the MBR out of it by
> > running:
> >
> > dd if=/dev/sda of=/tmp/r1 bs=512
> >
> > But couldn't access it whatsoever.
>
> Oops! I could access it, but of course I had to try it as root! 
> Right, I've got it on my hard drive now, but still cannot mount it:
> ==================================
> # mount -t vfat /dev/loop2 /tmp/r1
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop2,
>        missing codepage or other error
>        In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>        dmesg | tail  or so
> ==================================

IIRC, that is not the right syntax for mounting a loopback filesystem.
If /tmp/r1 is the file containing the filesystem, try

mount -o loop /tmp/r1 /mnt/somewhere

and make sure you have support for loopback devices in your kernel.
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