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Date:      Sun, 23 Jun 2002 12:55:54 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chad Ziccardi <ziccardi@digitalfreaks.org>
To:        Hans Lambermont <hans@lambermont.dyndns.org>
Cc:        vadim@e-complex.ru, <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: File system failure! URGENT Help needed!
Message-ID:  <20020623125321.A90926-100000@digitalfreaks.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020623114405.A42706@moya.lambermont.dyndns.org>

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begin quote from Hans Lambermont <hans@lambermont.dyndns.org> written...:

> vadim@e-complex.ru wrote:
>
> ...
> > booted it writed identical information onto both of that drivers
> ...
> > It is obvious, that the part of inodes was lost. How can we restore
> > it? May be, it is possible to recover that by info what is in the
> > files?
>
> I leave the inode magic to someone else, but for your filedata; I'd
> start with making a binary file copy of the whole drive (dd using raw
> device) so that you can dig trough it, maybe even copy the data parts
> that you need from it.
>
> If you have a spare drive that is exactly the same type you could make a
> binary copy of the disk to it, and don't need to worry about making the
> prolem worse while recovering the data with inode magic.
>
> Hope this helps you a bit.
>
> Hans Lambermont
>

On one of the spare disks put the data on with dd, here's two utils that will
help:

/usr/ports/sysutils/ffsrecov
/usr/ports/sysutils/gpart

As well as TCT.


-- 
Chad Ziccardi, Professional Slacker          cz@digitalfreaks.org
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."



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