Trouble mounting a filesystem image created using 'dd'
Hi all,
I recently took a backup of my old system, using a dd command of the form: dd if=/dev/sda of=lv_home.img
Stupidly, I can't recall the exact command, or the exact configuration of my old setup.
Unfortunately, I now find myself unable to mount the resulting image file, in order to recover its contents. I have googled multiple solutions, but none of them work for me - e.g. losetup, parted, kpartx and others.
Some potentially useful details appear below, and I have attached the results of running parted on the image.
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[kk@mserver oldsys]$ ls -alrth lv_home.img
-rw-rw-r--. 1 kk kk 760G Oct 21 20:39 lv_home.img
[kk@mserver oldsys]$ file lv_home.img
lv_home.img: Linux rev 1.0 ext4 filesystem data, UUID=79653d22-003f-4c83-aa31-d14b48fa9f20, volume name "_Fedora-16-i686-/" (errors) (extents) (large files) (huge files)
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The parted output includes some errors, but I don't know whether these are relevant or not.
Any help gratefully received :-)
K
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