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Operating Systems Linux Ubuntu Mounting a disk clone Post 302467649 by old noob on Saturday 30th of October 2010 03:39:32 PM

10-30-2010

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Mounting a disk clone

I wasn't sure where to put this thread but since i use ubuntu for data recovery, I figured this is the best place. So, a friend passed me a 250G Western Digital hard disk the other day and said that his client needs to get her pictures off it. the problem: windows says it wants to reformat the system. so i put in my linux disk and had a look.

when i ran dmesg as root shortly after connecting the drive it gave the output in dmesg.txt i attached

I looked at the original drive with fdisk -l. I have made an image that I will be working with.

I had the same output when i used sfdisk on the image.

mount -o loop to /mnt fails it wants me to specify a filesystem and when i do it spits out a dmesg tail error.

is there anything else i can try like specifying an offset?

dmesg.txt (759 Bytes)

fdisk.txt (1.0 KB)

parted.txt (541 Bytes)

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dmesg

DMESG(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 						  DMESG(8)

NAME

     dmesg -- display the system message buffer

SYNOPSIS

     dmesg [-ac] [-M core [-N system]]

DESCRIPTION

     The dmesg utility displays the contents of the system message buffer.  If the -M option is not specified, the buffer is read from the cur-
     rently running kernel via the sysctl(3) interface.  Otherwise, the buffer is read from the specified core file, using the name list from the
     specified kernel image (or from the default image).

     The options are as follows:

     -a      Show all data in the message buffer.  This includes any syslog records and /dev/console output.

     -c      Clear the kernel buffer after printing.

     -M      Extract values associated with the name list from the specified core.

     -N      If -M is also specified, extract the name list from the specified system instead of the default, which is the kernel image the system
	     has booted from.

FILES

     /var/run/dmesg.boot  usually a snapshot of the buffer contents taken soon after file systems are mounted at startup time

SEE ALSO

     sysctl(3), syslogd(8)

HISTORY

     The dmesg utility appeared in 4.0BSD.

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