Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:18:59 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Recovering select files from a failing hard disk Message-ID: <45A7FB43.40208@u.washington.edu>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I know similar questions have been asked on the list, but this one has a slight twist to it. I have a failing hard disk that I want to recover only a few directories from, so I was wondering.. 1. Can I bypass mounting or reading certain sections of the filesystem? 2. Can I force part of a drive to be remapped to other sectors? 3. Is there a backup superblock on the disk and what would it be? I know this feature exists on some filesystems, but I'm not sure if UFS is one of those filesystems. The reason for these questions is that I believe that the portion of my failing hard disk is involved with the statistics portion for the data slice or a series of directories. So, I want to grab the files off my disk and just dump the thing asap. - -Garrett -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.1 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFp/s2EnKyINQw/HARApW/AKCrllZjQ9vuXLPph7C3o/E/kJDYnwCgmyz4 giR+Y1EakuM4s2PJfQ/Ngfk= =kDwK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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