Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 19:53:12 -0300 From: Alejandro Pulver <alejandro@varnet.biz> To: Pietro Cerutti <pietro.cerutti@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: dd on samba Message-ID: <20050314195312.7f6149cb@ale.varnet.bsd> In-Reply-To: <e572718c05031405344dec8fb@mail.gmail.com> References: <e572718c0503140527755376c4@mail.gmail.com> <e572718c05031405344dec8fb@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 13:34:17 +0000 Pietro Cerutti <pietro.cerutti@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 13:27:19 +0000, Pietro Cerutti > <pietro.cerutti@gmail.com> wrote: > > dd and dump won't work (they won't put the data on a directory). > > Maybe I solved it, by making > # dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/mnt/some_file.dd bs=2m > > But how is goint to be to restore the whole filesystem? > > Thanks! > > > -- > Pietro "Piter" Cerutti > <pietro.cerutti@gmail.com> > <piter@beansidhe.ch> > > Beansidhe - SwiSS Death / Thrash Metal > <www.beansidhe.ch> > > Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" > Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" > FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming or what?" Hello, I have free space between two slices to I tried to do the same as you. When you have the image of a slice generated by 'dd', it contains its partitions and filesystems. First you may want to make that slice image (file) to appear in '/dev', so you can manipulate its partitions. This is done (in FreeBSD 5.X, if you use 4.X use'vnconfig', there are examples in the Handbook) like with a CD-ROM ISO image (see the Handbook->Storage): mdconfig -a -t vnode -f <file> -u <n> It will appear in '/dev' as 'md<n>', with its partitions, like the following: md1a md1c [...] So you can mount them, dump them, etc., like with a slice (in fact, it is an image of a slice). When you end what you want to do with it, do (after unmounting the partitions): mdconfig -d -u <n> Best Regards, Ale
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