On Fri, 9 Dec 2005, Levi Bard wrote:
> > Copy each partition into a file with something like
> > dd if=/dev/hdxn bs=512 conv=noerror | gzip -9 > hdxn.img.gz
>
> Sounds great, except I can't read the partition table, and makedev
> won't even create the /dev/hdb* devices on boot.
You can create the hdb? devices with mknod ("mknod /tmp/hdb1 c 3 65", etc.).
Here are the first few devices:
0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 65 Aug 30 2002 /dev/hdb1
0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 66 Aug 30 2002 /dev/hdb2
0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 67 Aug 30 2002 /dev/hdb3
0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 68 Aug 30 2002 /dev/hdb4
0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 69 Aug 30 2002 /dev/hdb5
0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 70 Aug 30 2002 /dev/hdb6
0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 71 Aug 30 2002 /dev/hdb7
0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 72 Aug 30 2002 /dev/hdb8
0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 73 Aug 30 2002 /dev/hdb9
etc.
Can you access the disk using the alternate partition tables at blocks
(8192*n + 1) IIRC?
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