Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 14:34:58 -0600 From: Hari Bhaskaran <subscr@spider.netmails.net> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@attbi.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recovering data from a faulty drive Message-ID: <20030110203458.GA25253@poecilotheria.netmails.net> In-Reply-To: <q9znq9g1zn.nq9@localhost.localdomain> References: <20030110002127.GA19809@poecilotheria.netmails.net> <q9znq9g1zn.nq9@localhost.localdomain>
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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
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