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Cc: Enno Davids <enno.davids@metva.com.au>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: disk recovery tools...
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>> From professional experience as a data recovery technician, I can tell
> you that ufs2 drives are among the hardest to recover from after a

there is a little change as UFS2 use lazy inode initialization. so 
possibly lots can be recovered. but i don't know any soft that does it.