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Date:      Wed, 03 Nov 2004 08:19:25 -0500
From:      David Gilbert <dave@daveg.ca>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca>
Subject:   Re: More running-with-scissors and fsck.
Message-ID:  <4188DADD.4020907@daveg.ca>
In-Reply-To: <12706.1099468499@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <12706.1099468499@critter.freebsd.dk>

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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

>In message <41887A33.2060608@dclg.ca>, David Gilbert writes:
>  
>
>>Well... the recoverdisk is a cool tool.  I can see it coming in handy 
>>many times.  While there isn't much documentation, I've tended to use it 
>>by creating a vnode md disk of exactly the right size to recover the 
>>partition in question.
>>    
>>
>
>You could just have used a regular file for it and connected it to a
>md later on.
>  
>
It won't create the file by itself.  I created the md disk because I 
didn't take the time to read the code, I suppose.  It would make people 
"feel" better if it created the target file when it didn't exist.

Dave.



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