Re: dd of xfs partition does not mount

[Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 06:04:40PM -0800, Chris Croswhite wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I was trying to dd a drive that has several partitions with several file
> systems.  I am having dificulty getting the xfs partitions on the dd'ed
> drive to mount properly. Here is what I am doing:
> 
> dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=1024
> 
> Then I try to mount the one xfs partition:
> 
> mount -t xfs /dev/hdb4 /mountpoint
> 
> All other dd'ed partitions I am able to mount.  I have tried this on
> several machines with the same affect.  What am I doing wrong?

You probably need to use the "nouuid" mount option, or use
xfs_admin(8) to change the UUID on the copied filesystem.
You syslog will have more information on the nature of the
mount failure.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan