From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 17 09:36:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA29750 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 09:36:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from garfield.cs.mun.ca (jr@garfield.cs.mun.ca [134.153.1.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA29727 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 09:36:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jr@localhost) by garfield.cs.mun.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA31474; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 14:05:49 -0330 (NST) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 14:05:49 -0330 (NST) From: John Rochester To: Luigi Rizzo cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: File system/disk recovery tools ? In-Reply-To: <199702171214.NAA02971@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > actually an annoying thing with fsck -b is that I never know what > to use as an alternate superblock number. 32, says the manpage, is > an alternate superblock, but what are others ? Try doing a newfs -N on the partition. That will tell you where it would put the superblocks if you were creating the filesystem now. Unless the original filesystem was created with really strange parameters, they will be in the same position. john ----- John Rochester jr@cs.mun.ca Dept. of Computer Science Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada