seriously, have you tried clonezilla? this is exactly what it was designed to do.
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Michael Havens <[email protected]> wrote: > I know there is filesystem there.... I just wrote it. > What in the world? > dd if=/dev/sda2 bs=16 count=1 | od -a > says records in and records out and then so maNY BYTES WERE COPIED IN how > much time. . Then it says..... oh how stupid I am! I created the d drive on > a logical partition..... sda5 not sda2 > > hmmmm.... it didn't mount it read-only but I'm getting other errors wh.en I > run fsarchiver. This time it says: > executing [ntfs-3g -h]. . . > command [ntfs-3g -h] returned 9 > executing [ntfs-3g -o streams_interface=xattr -o efs_raw -o ro > /dev/sda1 /tmp/fsa/20120114-164053-00]. . . > command [ntfs-3g -o streams_interface=xattr -o efs_raw -o ro /dev/sda1 > /tmp/fsa/20120114-164053-00]. . . returned 0 > Analising filesystem on /dev/sda1. . . > [error5 (and then it gives a directory that my folks deleted before > they gave my brother this computer)] > [error5 more text I don't want to type > [executing fusermount]. . > command fusermount returned 1 > executing fusermount -u <file>]. . . > command fusermount -u <file> returned 0 > removed <fsarciver file> > > This is so frustrating. I can't create an account on the fsarchiver forum so > I need to ask you guys. > > > On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Matt Graham <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> From: Michael Havens <[email protected]> >> > After searching fir an answer I found mount.ntfs-3g so I type in >> > mount.ntfs-3g /dev/sda2 /c >> > >> > and the machine tells me I have an invalid argument. This is strange >> > because when I mount sda1 with the same command it does it with no >> > problems. >> >> Is there a filesystem on sda2? If "mount.ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 >> /mnt/somewhere" >> works and it doesn't work with sda2, then check. Doing "dd if=/dev/sda2 >> bs=16 >> count=1 | od -a" should return a line or 2 with "N T F S" immediately >> visible. >> If you get nothing but zeroes, then there isn't an NTFS filesystem there. >> Figure out what is there and go from there. If there isn't anything >> there, >> sda2 isn't an extended partition, and you *want* to have an NTFS >> filesystem >> there, mkntfs could do that, but I don't know what Windows would do with >> it. >> It tends to get irritated when everything isn't exactly like how it >> expects. >> >> Also, when Windows creates more than one partition on a disk, it generally >> makes those extra partitions logical, not primary, or at least it *used* >> to in >> 2000/XP. "fdisk -l /dev/sda" and post the results. >> >> -- >> Matt G / Dances With Crows >> The Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress/ >> There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
