From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 12 21:19:13 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 294A616A417 for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2007 21:19:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout3.cac.washington.edu (mxout3.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.166]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 054CB13C45A for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2007 21:19:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.33.7] (may be forged)) by mxout3.cac.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW06.09) with ESMTP id l0CLJ17q023063 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:19:01 -0800 X-Auth-Received: from [192.168.0.101] (dsl254-013-145.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.254.13.145]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW06.09) with ESMTP id l0CLJ1Bf029343 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:19:01 -0800 Message-ID: <45A7FB43.40208@u.washington.edu> Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:18:59 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070109) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Version: 5.2.2.285561, Antispam-Engine: 2.5.0.283055, Antispam-Data: 2007.1.12.130433 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__CP_URI_IN_BODY 0, __CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __LINES_OF_YELLING 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __USER_AGENT 0' Subject: Recovering select files from a failing hard disk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 21:19:13 -0000 -----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-----