On 26/09/17 17:31, Reco wrote:
On 26/09/17 13:01, solitone wrote:It's strange, since it finds /dev/sda, i.e. the entire disk: ========================================================= [ 6.438693] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 188743680 512-byte logical blocks: (96.6 GB/90.0 GiB) [ 6.469182] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off [ 6.482421] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA ========================================================= However, it then complains that /dev/sda1 does not existsThat's because you don't have any partitions on that disk. Partition that's start with sector 0 is impossible.
Interesting. I used parted to create one single partition as big as the entire file. Here's what parted shows now:
========================================================= $ /sbin/parted alan_restore.img WARNING: You are not superuser. Watch out for permissions. GNU Parted 3.2 Using /media/solitone/Maxtor/vmimages/alan_restore.img Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. (parted) p Model: (file) Disk /media/solitone/Maxtor/vmimages/alan_restore.img: 96.6GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: loop Disk Flags: Number Start End Size File system Flags 1 0.00B 96.6GB 96.6GB ext4 =========================================================I assumed that that number 1 referred to partition n. 1, but I must be mistaken.