Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 18:06:05 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Cc: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: File system/disk recovery tools ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970217180449.19139C-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <199702171214.NAA02971@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > [about fs recovery] > > > dd the whole disk off onto a file and mount it on a vnode? You might > > unfortunately is 1.6GB ... I need to find a bigger unit! > > > 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? Sander > upon the geometry of the disk... is there a "magic" number that I > can look for ? > > Thanks > Luigi > -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- > Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione > email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa > tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) > fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ > _____________________________|______________________________________ >
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