Ok that makes sense. Device mapper can't work directly with a dd file like that as it needs a block device as input. You can however mount an image as a loopback device and then use that with other dmsetup commands.
I should be able to find some time tomorrow to play with the 7.0-WIP version.
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- 21 Aug 2014, 04:49
- Forum: Partition Recovery
- Topic: Partition recovery feature request
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- 19 Aug 2014, 03:52
- Forum: Partition Recovery
- Topic: Partition recovery feature request
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Re: Partition recovery feature request
Nothing comes immediately to mind, but I'm happy to help with figuring it out. What was the exact dmsetup command you ran? The syntax is rather odd - in the very simple example I used below the order of the numbers in the echo statement are: Start sector of the new device, size of the new device in ...
- 14 Aug 2014, 06:53
- Forum: Partition Recovery
- Topic: Partition recovery feature request
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Partition recovery feature request
After accidentally screwing up my drive using gparted to move and resize a few partitions and LVM2 logical volumes I had to resort to testdisk to find the ext4 filesystem that had been my /home directory to recover some data from it. In this case I did not want to have testdisk re-write the ...