From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 23 04:01:20 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 B2C1816A436 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 04:01:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dmehler26@woh.rr.com) Received: from ms-smtp-03-eri0.ohiordc.rr.com (ms-smtp-03-smtplb.ohiordc.rr.com [65.24.5.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4753943DA3 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 04:01:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dmehler26@woh.rr.com) Received: from satellite (cpe-65-31-41-159.woh.res.rr.com [65.31.41.159]) by ms-smtp-03-eri0.ohiordc.rr.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id k1N41AS1019665; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 23:01:11 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <018701c6382c$7e159d20$0200a8c0@satellite> From: "Dave" To: "Edward B. DREGER" References: <015701c63828$7af60a70$0200a8c0@satellite> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 22:51:56 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2670 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2670 X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine 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 Reply-To: Dave 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 04:01:21 -0000 Hello, Thank you for your reply. How would i go about doing this copy so i could use a vnode on it? As i think i mentioned dump didn't like it. One other thing i can mount the ad1a, ad1d, ad1f, and ad1g partitions just fine, it's the ad1e partition only that is giving me the grief and that's the one i need! Thanks. Dave. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Edward B. DREGER" To: "Dave" Cc: Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 10:42 PM Subject: Re: urgent, need to recover superblock! > 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.