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On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 13:47 -0500, Matt Emmerton wrote:
> What are my options at this point?  Since all the superblocks are identical, 
> fsck always behaves the same.  I suspect that one of the key blocks that the 
> superblock points to is corrupted.  Is any of this data replicated on disk? 
> Can I troll the disk looking for intermediate blocks and easily chain 
> together portions of directory trees?

This kind of thing is why I put ports/sysutils/ffs2recov together.  You
won't be able to recover everything but you should be able to get a lot
of it back.
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