From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 17 08:11:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA24395 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 08:11:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA24023 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 08:06:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id QAA03698; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 16:14:54 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199702171514.QAA03698@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: File system/disk recovery tools ? To: narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee (Narvi) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 16:14:53 +0100 (MET) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Narvi" at Feb 17, 97 06:05:46 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > 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/ _____________________________|______________________________________