Posted June 28th, 2009 by macaal

Hallo every body!!!
Well there is where i'm in troubel...
The begin:
"I read Kyle Rakin's colum about this moths Lightning hacks strike twice, my interes was focus on the dd image over ssh" before this I've heard about dd but I didn't know how wonderfull (and powerfull) it is.
Next step-the do:
I start make a hole dd over my disk to a image file...
dd if=/dev/sda of=/media/paseo/imagen/imagen.img
this works fine but now...
The problem:
The idea is that I want to mount this image...exactly is the root partition for later recover some files for example--like
mount -t ext3 -o loop /media/paseo/imagen/imagen.img /media/net

thet output of the error msg

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
En algunos casos se encuentra información en syslog, pruebe
dmesg | tail o algo parecido

this is my dmesg |tail

[16563.291016] mtrr: no more MTRRs available
[25143.183670] VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev loop0.
[27605.632847] VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev loop0.
[27609.437021] VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev loop0.
[36690.146233] VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev loop0.

so I start searching in the inet
this point me at first time to
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/restore-files-from-dd-image-618939/

where I extract that I have to type

fdisk -l -u /media/paseo/imagen/imagen.img

the output of this is

Debe establecer cilindros.
Puede efectuar esta operación desde el menú de funciones adicionales.

Disco /media/paseo/imagen/imagen.img: 0 MB, 0 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 0 cylinders, 0 sectores en total
Units = sectores of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xb7d8b185

Disposit. Inicio Comienzo Fin Bloques Id Sistema
/media/paseo/imagen/imagen.img1 63 2152709 1076323+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/media/paseo/imagen/imagen.img2 2152710 15759764 6803527+ 83 Linux

from this it make me clear that there was two partitions....
AND I want to mount the second yes... my file system...

in this forum the guy Halgeir point me to ---this page http://edseek.com/~jasonb/articles/linux_loopback.html

where I read on....

and at the point where it gets interest for me (at the last page I told about) with the title "Mounting by First Extracting the Partition"

I make exact what this guy tell about (with my image paramaters) and it don't function...

At the end I make a image (alone) of my root partition /dev/sda2 and have after it mounted whithout any problem...!!!

So my question is how can I extract with dd a partition (the exactly parameters or funtions), from a hole image of a disk!!!

Thanks at all.

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Do not work

On June 29th, 2009 macaal says:

Hy!
First thanks for your fast reply, Mitch Frazier...
But I've to inform that it don't work!!!
#mount like you tell me with out to extract
mount -o loop,ro,offset=$((2152710*512)) /media/paseo/imagen/imagen.img /media/net/
#The output
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
En algunos casos se encuentra información en syslog, pruebe
dmesg | tail o algo parecido
#The dmesg |tail
dmesg |tail
[15277.904921] EXT3-fs: write access unavailable, cannot proceed.
[15285.188111] EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem.
[15285.188111] EXT3-fs: write access unavailable, cannot proceed.
[15643.599213] VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev loop0.
[15746.863089] VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev loop0.
[15761.026594] VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev loop0.
[15803.577323] VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev loop0.
[15864.643090] VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev loop0.
[15947.770446] EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem.
[15947.770446] EXT3-fs: write access unavailable, cannot proceed.

#and doing the extract process
dd if=/media/paseo/imagen/imagen.img of=/media/paseo/imagen/newimagen.img bs=512 skip=2152710 count=6803527
#give me this result when I try to mount it...
mount -o loop /media/paseo/imagen/newimagen.img /media/net/
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
En algunos casos se encuentra información en syslog, pruebe
dmesg | tail o algo parecido
#the dmesg of this is...
dmesg |tail
[16232.413789] EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem.
[16232.413789] EXT3-fs: write access unavailable, cannot proceed.
[16416.988757] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
[16416.988757] EXT3-fs warning: mounting fs with errors, running e2fsck is recommended
[16416.988757] EXT3 FS on loop0, internal journal
[16416.988757] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[16473.681905] attempt to access beyond end of device
[16473.681929] loop0: rw=0, want=6295576, limit=6235897
[16473.681943] JBD: IO error reading journal superblock
[16473.681957] EXT3-fs: error loading journal.
#So I do some research on my own and find out that the extracted image is in size smaller than that, that I make by hand...
#I clear up
dd if=/dev/sda2 of=/media/paseo/imagen/test.img
#The size of this image is...
du -s /media/paseo/imagen/test.img
4194304 /media/paseo/imagen/test.img
#4Gb
#And the size of the extracted image is...
du -s /media/paseo/imagen/newimagen.img
3117952 /media/paseo/imagen/newimagen.img
#I think here is the point of the problem
#The calculation is wrong so I get a wrong size of the image in the two cases (extract and mount)...
#If some one can find out the right calculation... would be nice...and think would be work...!!!
Thanks at all....!!!

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Try Using Parted

On June 29th, 2009 Mitch Frazier says:

Try using parted rather than fdisk to display the offsets and sizes of the partitions. Set the units to bytes and then do a print. Take the byte values and divide them by 512, check to see if they match the values that fdisk is telling you.

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Mitch Frazier is an Associate Editor for Linux Journal and the Web Editor for linuxjournal.com.

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Use dd with an offset and count

On June 28th, 2009 Mitch Frazier says:

This should extract the partition from the disk image:

  % dd if=imagen.img of=newimagen.img bs=512 skip=2152710 count=6803527

Then you should be able to mount it with:

  % mount -o loop,ro newimagen.img /media/net

You should also be able to mount it without extracting it with:

  % mount -o loop,ro,offset=$((2152710*512)) imagen.img /media/net
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