From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 23 03:42:06 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 756BF16A422 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 03:42:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net) Received: from a.mx.ict1.everquick.net (a.mx.ict1.everquick.net [204.10.191.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C78DF43D48 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 03:42:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net) Received: from pop.ict1.everquick.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a.mx.ict1.everquick.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k1N3g31s030993; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 03:42:03 GMT X-Everquick-No-Abuse-1: Report any email abuse to or X-Everquick-No-Abuse-2: call +1 (785) 865-5885. Please be sure to reference X-Everquick-No-Abuse-3: the Message-Id and include GMT timestamps. Received: from localhost (eddy@localhost) by pop.ict1.everquick.net (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) with ESMTP id k1N3g26I030980; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 03:42:02 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: pop.ict1.everquick.net: eddy owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 03:42:02 +0000 (GMT) From: "Edward B. DREGER" X-X-Sender: eddy@pop.ict1.everquick.net To: Dave In-Reply-To: <015701c63828$7af60a70$0200a8c0@satellite> Message-ID: References: <015701c63828$7af60a70$0200a8c0@satellite> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: urgent, need to recover superblock! X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 03:42:06 -0000 First, copy the entire drive to a file on another drive. Don't mess around with the original drive. The vnode disk driver is your friend. I can't find the quick-and-dirty tool I hacked up a few years back when I needed to recover a MBR... however one can scan a sector at a time, find likely partitions, then manually create a disklabel. (You see why you want to play with an image mounted via vnode!) Eddy -- Everquick Internet - http://www.everquick.net/ A division of Brotsman & Dreger, Inc. - http://www.brotsman.com/ Bandwidth, consulting, e-commerce, hosting, and network building Phone: +1 785 865 5885 Lawrence and [inter]national Phone: +1 316 794 8922 Wichita ________________________________________________________________________ DO NOT send mail to the following addresses: davidc@brics.com -*- jfconmaapaq@intc.net -*- sam@everquick.net Sending mail to spambait addresses is a great way to get blocked. Ditto for broken OOO autoresponders and foolish AV software backscatter.