From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 29 2:26: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-169-107-187.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.169.107.187]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00E1337B401 for ; Wed, 29 May 2002 02:25:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 93A7666C0D; Wed, 29 May 2002 02:25:57 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 02:25:57 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Sam Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Crashed Hard Drive Message-ID: <20020529022557.B50697@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <3CF395E5.46AF2934@hulot.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="7iMSBzlTiPOCCT2k" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <3CF395E5.46AF2934@hulot.org>; from sam@hulot.org on Tue, May 28, 2002 at 07:36:22AM -0700 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 --7iMSBzlTiPOCCT2k Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 07:36:22AM -0700, Sam wrote: > I recent had my hard drive crash and I unable to read either the /var or > /usr directories. fsck says it cannot write too a few areas and thus > calls it dirty. Are there any utilites to go in there and retrieve the > information. Yes, but you have to know what you're doing or you can make the problem worse. fsdb(8) and the ffsrecov port might help you. Kris --7iMSBzlTiPOCCT2k Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE89J6lWry0BWjoQKURAq1VAJ9rFhXC85wPPJMcJC1nSCkadbdc2ACeOwaT C4h6RvusnH3KSzY85IbN3B8= =RnR0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --7iMSBzlTiPOCCT2k-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message