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Date:      Sun, 29 May 2005 11:37:43 +0200
From:      "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@kukulies.org>
To:        "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ffsrecov still broken port?
Message-ID:  <20050529093743.GA52031@kukulies.org>
In-Reply-To: <200505291846.18075.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
References:  <20050529084628.GA3276@kukulies.org> <200505291846.18075.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>

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On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 06:46:17PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> On Sun, 29 May 2005 18:16, Christoph P. Kukulies wrote:
> > I can create a vnode (mdconfig) of that disk but trying to fsck on it
> > fails for obvious reasons, since I had to access the slices and not the
> > whole disk dump.
> 
> What "obvious" reasons?

I meant, when I have a dump image of the entire disk I cannot
run fsck on the entire dump. I had to know about the partitions
and the slices and extract these from the disk dump.

> Why fsck it at all? I would just mount it read only and then copy the 
> essential data off it..

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Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku_at_kukulies.org




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