From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Gergely Soos <sogerc1@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: need help to repair XFS partition
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 18:09:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090106230930.GA24703@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b75ef8170901061454v76081ca8x6f87e4bf14eb8491@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 12:54:52AM +0200, Gergely Soos wrote:
> Unfortunately it's not that simple. Actually that HDD has two partitions and
> hdd2 is physically before hdd1 (they are reversed in the partition table),
> so I absolutely need to move the start of the partition to the address which
> is 63 sectors more than it is now.
> Currently it starts at absolute byte position 5132575420 and it should start
> at 5132606976.
> Do you know what program is capable of doing this? I looked for MBR
> documentation and in the partition table it is stored in CHS format
> so it would be really hard (at least for me) to do it by hand.
If you want to mount the partitions once you can creat a loop device
ontop of you disk device and use the -o option, e.g.
losetup -o 5132606976 /dev/loop0 /dev/hdd1
and then mount /dev/loop0. But that's not really something I'd want
to use for a longer time..
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-06 23:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-06 9:11 need help to repair XFS partition Gergely Soos
2009-01-06 9:27 ` Chris Wedgwood
2009-01-06 16:06 ` Eric Sandeen
2009-01-06 18:04 ` Gergely Soos
2009-01-06 18:40 ` Eric Sandeen
2009-01-06 18:46 ` Eric Sandeen
[not found] ` <b75ef8170901061351madb546flbc1631bc55cd4412@mail.gmail.com>
2009-01-06 21:54 ` Eric Sandeen
2009-01-06 22:31 ` Gergely Soos
2009-01-06 22:40 ` Eric Sandeen
2009-01-06 22:54 ` Gergely Soos
2009-01-06 23:09 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2009-01-06 23:26 ` Gergely Soos
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