Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 16:14:53 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee (Narvi) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: File system/disk recovery tools ? Message-ID: <199702171514.QAA03698@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970217180449.19139C-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> from "Narvi" at Feb 17, 97 06:05:46 pm
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> > > 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? yes. 1..3 years before you need them :) 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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