From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 18 00:37:34 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C12E91065679 for ; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:37:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bounces@nabble.com) Received: from kuber.nabble.com (kuber.nabble.com [216.139.236.158]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C53D8FC19 for ; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:37:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from isper.nabble.com ([192.168.236.156]) by kuber.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1MoRTi-0005RM-5c for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:37:34 -0700 Message-ID: <25498179.post@talk.nabble.com> Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:37:34 -0700 (PDT) From: jaymax To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Nabble-From: jaymax36@gmail.com Subject: Undelete or recover from badblocks on disks X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:37:34 -0000 I seemed to have lost some critical dump files during a restore. The directory in which they were backed up in seemed to vaporize. The data was present as indicated by df -h but the directory was not listed. fsck on the disk was ineffective fsck_ffs produced an extensive listing of bad block, a final SALVAGE option, but on completion, the disk "capacity" from the df -h was significantly reduced. Is there anyway of recovering even 'partial' data from these lost blocks? The drive has been disconnected so that there would be no 'write' activities? Thanks -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Undelete-or-recover-from-badblocks-on-disks-tp25498179p25498179.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com.