Re: Mounting a dump file

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Wed, 10 Apr 2013, Ray Phillips wrote:

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> However mounting the file system in the dump file fails:
>
> # vnconfig -vcr vnd0 *
> /dev/rvnd0d: 2434641920 bytes on tstdmp-dump-2013-04-10
> # vnconfig -l
> vnd0: /usr/dumps (/dev/wd0e) inode 4496136
> vnd1: not in use
> vnd2: not in use
> vnd3: not in use
> # mount /dev/vnd0d /mnt
> mount_ffs: /dev/vnd0d on /mnt: incorrect super block
> #
>
> I was hoping to be able to mount the the dump file then restore its contents 
> to an empty partition as a way of doing a bare metal restore of the source 
> machine if it dies.  Could someone point out where I'm going wrong please?

Don't try to mount(8) the output from dump(8) - that output is a file, 
and not a filesystem!

Instead, just try to use restore(8) on it:

restore -i -f tstdmp-dump-2013-04-10


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