Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 15:31:00 -0500 From: Alexander Kabaev <ak03@gte.com> To: Wesley Morgan <morganw@chemikals.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Trashed Disk Labels Message-ID: <20021129153100.0112b71a.ak03@gte.com> In-Reply-To: <20021129145155.I8411-100000@volatile.chemikals.org> References: <200211291938.gATJcS59077381@beastie.mckusick.com> <20021129145155.I8411-100000@volatile.chemikals.org>
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On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 14:53:06 -0500 (EST) Wesley Morgan <morganw@chemikals.org> wrote: > On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Kirk McKusick wrote: > > > I have had a report of a disk label getting trashed after booting > > up to a kernel with the new UFS2 superblock format. I have just > > checked in an update to ufs/ffs/ffs_vfsops.c (version 1.198) that > > explicitly checks to make sure that it will not trash your disk > > label. I highly recommend that you update to this version, even if > > you are only running with UFS1 filesystems. > > > > Kirk McKusick > > Great! Any tools available to extract my var/db/pkg dirs from this image > of my trashed UFS2 filesystem? :> > > -- > Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me > spread! > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message I successfully used ffsfind utility to locate filesystem boundaries on a disk I trashed some time ago. I do not have the utility source available anymore, but you can track it down quite easily on google, I believe. The one I used was actually posted for NetBSD, but it compiled with minimal changes on FreeBSD and Solaris too. You will have to teach it to recognize UFS2 magic. -- Alexander Kabaev To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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