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Date:      Mon, 17 Feb 1997 16:14:53 +0100 (MET)
From:      Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
To:        narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee (Narvi)
Cc:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: File system/disk recovery tools ?
Message-ID:  <199702171514.QAA03698@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970217180449.19139C-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> from "Narvi" at Feb 17, 97 06:05:46 pm

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> > > have to reconstruct the label and such, and using fsck's '-b' option
> > 
> > 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 ? I guess they depend
> 
> Hmmm.... I may be wrong (luckily I have never had to repair so broken a
> disk) but doesn't newfs output them during the fs creation phase?

yes. 1..3 years before you need them :)

	Luigi
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