Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 13:59:58 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au, giles@nemeton.com.au Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au Subject: Re: File system/disk recovery tools ? Message-ID: <199702180259.NAA22662@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>This is becoming a FAQ. Two enhancements to tools that might help >would be: > > o making newfs add superblock numbers to /etc/sbtab like > HP-UX does (caveats on / being mounted read-write etc) Something should put them in /var/backups. I keep backups of MBRs and labels there. File systems made with the defaults don't need to be recorded unless the defaults change, since they are machine- generated. However, Lite2 may change the defaults. Bruce
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