Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 08:20:15 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: frank@exit.com Cc: FreeBSD FS <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Repairing a defective UFS 2 partition with fsck_ffs (or other means) Message-ID: <20081102082015.b8d40d77.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <1225600923.97152.3.camel@jill.exit.com> References: <20081102050601.9fccb80f.freebsd@edvax.de> <1225600923.97152.3.camel@jill.exit.com>
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Hi, many thanks for your quick reply. On Sat, 01 Nov 2008 21:42:03 -0700, Frank Mayhar <frank@exit.com> wrote: > Check out /usr/ports/sysutils/ffs2recov. It won't repair the filesystem > but it may be able to recover some or all of your data. I've already tried this program: % mdconfig -a -t vnode -f ad1s1f.dd md0 % ffs2recov -dav /dev/md0 will create many files according to inode numbers. The file command will identify them as "data", and they are all of the same size, group-wise. I don't know what I could do with these files. Furthermore, these errors are repeatedly displayed: getinode: inode size (14199049117881519608 > 175821242368) too big, skipping. and main.c:529 memory allocation failed for inode 294970, -1693177856 with different values. I'm not sure if ffs2recov is the right tool here, or am I using it the wrong way? I've read /usr/local/share/doc/sleuthkit/ref_fs.txt carefully, but it doesn't seem to help me either. I don't want to buy expensive "Windows" software that I have to run in wine (along with the usual problems upcoming) for something that I think could be solved using FreeBSD's on-board means, or even send the disk to a recovery company for much money. I simply can't afford this. If you have any experiences regarding this special case of data recovery, please give me an advice where I should play attention. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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