<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>[root@server /]# fdisk -l /dev/da0</div><div><i>fdisk: illegal option -- l</i></div><div><i>usage: fdisk [-BIaipqstu] [-b bootcode] [-1234] [disk]</i></div><div><i> fdisk -f configfile [-itv] [disk]</i></div><div><br></div><div>I posted this earlier:</div><div><div>[root@server /]# fdisk /dev/da0</div><div><i>******* Working on device /dev/da0 *******</i></div><div><i>parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:</i></div><div><i>cylinders=9729 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)</i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div><i>Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1</i></div><div><i>parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:</i></div><div><i>cylinders=9729 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)</i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div><i>Media sector size is 512</i></div><div><i>Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1</i></div><div><i>Information from DOS bootblock is:</i></div><div><i>The data for partition 1 is:</i></div><div><i>sysid 7 (0x07),(NTFS, OS/2 HPFS, QNX-2 (16 bit) or Advanced UNIX)</i></div><div><i> start 63, size 156295377 (76316 Meg), flag 0</i></div><div><i> beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;</i></div><div><i> end: cyl 1023/ head 239/ sector 63</i></div><div><i>The data for partition 2 is:</i></div><div><i><UNUSED></i></div><div><i>The data for partition 3 is:</i></div><div><i><UNUSED></i></div><div><i>The data for partition 4 is:</i></div><div><i><UNUSED></i></div><div><br></div><div>--</div><div>Ryan</div><div><br></div></div><div><div>On Apr 13, 2010, at 11:08 AM, Sunny wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Ryan Coleman <<a href="mailto:ryanjcole@me.com">ryanjcole@me.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">The entire disk; Should I re-try the ddrescue with the slice only?<br></blockquote><br>Does it has valid partition table? What's the output of fdisk -l<br>/dev/xxx, where xxx is sdx/hdx?<br><br>If t has valid partition table, yes, dd only the partition, not the<br>entire drive. If there's no valid partition table, then you need to<br>run testdisk on the image to try to recover the partition first.<br><br>Sunny<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota<br><a href="mailto:tclug-list@mn-linux.org">tclug-list@mn-linux.org</a><br>http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>