On Sun, 3 Oct 2010 01:15:06 -0500, Brandon Gooch <jamesbrandongo...@gmail.com> wrote: > I believe that the above 'if' operand to dd should instead be /dev/da1 > (without the 's1' slice). Also, the operand 'of' will need to point to > a device, such as /dev/ad12, or a file on a mounted file system, such > as /mnt/my_disk_image.img
A good advice. Also: You should, when in doubt, never, NEVER operate on the disk you want to restore data from. Dump the whole disk into a file and operate on THAT file. Use mdconfig to make it a block device if needed. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
