Re: [Xen-users] want to recover data from dom-U in a failed raid array

[Dave Stevens <geek@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting Peter <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> On 04/02/2015 10:00 PM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Thu, 2015-04-02 at 07:02 +0200, Jiri 'Ghormoon' Novak wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > if pvm, likely you just can mount it.
no, it fails saying I need to specify the filesystem type, don't know why

> > > if hvm, likely it has it's own MBR. either copy it out and run as domU
> > > or loopmout it with offset (first partition will likely be at 1MB, if
> > > there were more partitions you'll have to check where they start). I do
> > > this when I want to boot domU directly on the metal :)
> > kpartx is a useful tool for loopback mounting raw images which have a
> > partition table in them, it'll create device mapper nodes for each
> > partition.
> x[ml] block-attach can do it as well, eg:
> xl block-attach 0 /dev/vg0/foo /dev/xvdc r
>
>
> Peter
OK, I can check out these options.

Thanks,

Dave

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