Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 20:48:39 +0100 From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@kukulies.org> To: Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: finding alternate superblocks in ffs Message-ID: <20041031194839.GA50581@kukulies.org> In-Reply-To: <20041031194218.GH82832@numachi.com> References: <20041031114210.GA46741@kukulies.org> <20041031194218.GH82832@numachi.com>
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On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 02:42:18PM -0500, Brian Reichert wrote: > On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 12:42:10PM +0100, Christoph P. Kukulies wrote: > > Yesterday a major desaster happened: I stumbled across the power cable of my > > Dell Inspiron notebook. The notebook fell to the floor. FreeBSD was running > > at that time. Nothing seemed to got damaged, just a palm rest popped off. > > Wouldn't 'newfs -n <options>' tell you were they would be (assuming > you can recreate the options used on your FS to begin with)? you mean -N ? Indeed. That prints the superblock backups. Nice option. I was able to dd if=/dev/ad2s1e without any errors (funny that the fsck says it cannot read lotsa blocks). I moved that (10GB) dump to another machine where I might mount it on a virtual device and perform further recovery measures. Any ideas how to proceed? -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku_at_kukulies.org
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