From owner-freebsd-fs Sun Nov 2 04:23:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id EAA17837 for fs-outgoing; Sun, 2 Nov 1997 04:23:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-fs) Received: from woozle.rinet.ru (marck@woozle.rinet.ru [195.54.192.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id EAA17817; Sun, 2 Nov 1997 04:23:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marck@woozle.rinet.ru) Received: from localhost (marck@localhost) by woozle.rinet.ru (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA09820; Sun, 2 Nov 1997 15:23:31 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from marck@woozle.rinet.ru) Date: Sun, 2 Nov 1997 15:23:31 +0300 (MSK) From: Dmitry Morozovsky To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Getting info from a crashed disk Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi there, hope you'll never put yourself in a situation similar to mine. "FreeBSD woozle.rinet.ru 2.2.5-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE" I had an IDE disk on my machine (Quantum FB 1080A, rather old). Some days ago i type "pine" and got message complaining about reading my mailbox. Moment look at the console got unrecoverable read error message. Digging into a problem i found directories /var/mail and /usr/home (yeah! :((() unreadable. System was 2.2.2-R. I install 2.2.5-R on a new disk and tried to dump old /usr (mount it readonly) to new disk. dump prints many error messages about non-readable disk areas but create dump file. However, restore claims that file isn't dump at all. Is there a reasonable way to get at least my home directory back? Please cc your answers to my email address. Thanx for your help. Sincerely, D.Marck ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------