This is made much more complicated by it being sda6. That's 2 beyond the limits of the DOS boot sector, which places it in an extended region that's not backed up when you back up the boot sector. So my instructions no longer apply.
That it's sda6 at all suggests there's 4 partitions before it(not 5, sda5 is special) whose contents are at best unknown here.
This is why you need to be familiar with it, to know the implications of what you're doing -- to know what will and won't work and why.
Don't make me regret trying to help you. Don't do it.
You suggest the best option is the best n telling me not to use it i can't, so, what's the point then? m wasting all my comments, bcoz it ended up with nothing!
You suggest the best option is the best n telling me not to use it i can't, so, what's the point then? m wasting all my comments, bcoz it ended up with nothing!
I gave you several options, but you refused most of them, even though I warned you -- repeatedly -- that this way was the most difficult and troublesome and likely to end in disaster. You wasted your own time.
These GUIs can be misleading since the actual underlying filesystem isn't using URL's.
To actually mount a CIFS file share(CIFS = samba shares / windows shares / etc) with mount:
Code:
# /mnt/share, or wherever you mount it, should already exist and
# be an empty folder.
mount -t cifs //safe/mysharedfolder -o username=user,password="password" /path/to/mountfolder
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dd isn't psychic. dd won't know and cannot know what space is occupied, that's handled at the filesystem level. You need to use filesystem-specific tools to handle that, and how that's done depends on the filesystem type.
Three options:
1) Do it manually. Save your boot sector and /etc/fstab so you know what kind of partitions belong where, then create tarballs of the contents of every partition. By restoring the boot sector, 'w'-ing it inside 'fdisk', re-creating empty partitions and un-taring their contents in them, you ought to create a bootable system.
2) Cheat, forcing an ordinary dd dump to compress better. Boot a livecd and mount partitions, then 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/partition/bigfile bs=1048576 ; rm /mnt/partition/bigfile' to overwrite all unused space with zeroes. When you make your dd dump, it should now compress very well when piped through gzip because all empty space will contain zeroes.
3) Use partiton-specific tools. (dump can understand ext2/ext3)
I usually do option 1, myself, since it allows you to create a new system with different partition sizes on restore, though it's fiddly and a lot more work.
I tried your command, but it fails:
saman@saman-G41MT-ES2L:~$ sudo mount -t cifs //safe/tabatabaian_s -o username="myuser",password="mypass" /mnt/share
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //safe/tabatabaian_s,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
(for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might
need a /sbin/mount.<type> helper program)
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
this is the location I can reach via graphics browser:smb://safe/tabatabaian_s/
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
I gave you several options, but you refused most of them, even though I warned you -- repeatedly -- that this way was the most difficult and troublesome and likely to end in disaster. You wasted your own time.
whatever, that's my own business if it's the most difficult way or whatever, i can choose this option as long as it is mentioned in your post!
The command told you where to find better error messages. Did you run dmesg | tail yet? Did you get any interesting output from it?
I also told you to try the //IPaddress if //servername didn't work, did you try it?
I also told you smbfs://-style things and URL's in general make no sense at all in shell. Actual file paths don't work that way. I wasn't kidding. I use CIFS mounts all the time.
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