From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 10 12:35:49 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36B3937B401 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 12:35:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from poecilotheria.netmails.net (netmails.net [12.96.164.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6CA3143E4A for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 12:35:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from subscr@poecilotheria.netmails.net) Received: (qmail 25274 invoked by uid 1012); 10 Jan 2003 20:34:58 -0000 Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 14:34:58 -0600 From: Hari Bhaskaran To: "Gary W. Swearingen" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recovering data from a faulty drive Message-ID: <20030110203458.GA25253@poecilotheria.netmails.net> References: <20030110002127.GA19809@poecilotheria.netmails.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 06:41:48PM -0800, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > located. (Eg, "dd if=/dev/hd0 of=/somedir/bigfile skip=_somenum_ \ > count=_someothernum_") Again, it's not much good for anything but > copying back and trying again, but you might be able to find some > ASCII text of importance, if you're really desparate. Is there way to backup the partition info somewhere? (may be a floppy?) (At least for future installations?) I run vinum (mirrored across two disks) on other machines (which I installed recently), but this machine was installed way before I figured out vinum. > > Started your tape drive (and tapes) fund yet? :) -- Hari Bhaskaran > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message