Re: unable to mount a drive imaged using dd

On Oct 1, 1:23 pm, Bill Marcum <marcumb...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2008-10-01, techr...@xxxxxxxxx <techr...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:



I booted BackTrack3, and opened a terminal session to image an iDE
drive with three partitions.
The command was
  dd if=/dev/dha of=/dev/hdd conv=notrunc,noerror

This seemed to run fine.
Running "fdisk –l" showed identical partition info.

I created mount points for the three partitons
mkdir /mnt/hdd1
mkdir /mnt/hdd2
mkdir /mnt/hdd3

When I try to mount any of the partitions, I get an error message:
mount /dev/hdd1 /mnt/hdd1
mount: special device /dev/hdd1 does not exist

mount -o ro -t auto /dev/hdd1 /mnt/hdd1
mount: special device /dev/hdd1 does not exist

You may need to reboot after changing the partition table on /dev/hdd.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Stefan - I'm trying to access a partition, not an image.

Bill - Yep, a reboot was needed.

Thanks all!
.

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