Emergency! Accidental format of ext3

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 05:25:57PM -0500, Madison Kelly wrote:
> Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> >You can also dd to a file to store on a larger drive somewhere just to
> >avoid messing with the original drive a much as possible.
> >
> >Lennart Sorensen
> 
> Because I am in complete paranoia mode, can you (or someone) confirm for 
> me that the command:
> 
> # dd if=/dev/hda of=/path.to.file.img
> 
> is proper? Once the dd image is write, what is the best way to mount the 
> image as a loopback device?


That is a proper command yes.

mount -o loop /path.to.file.img /emptymountdir

Lennart Sorensen
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