From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 17 23:56:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mg136-146.ricochet.net (mg136-146.ricochet.net [204.179.136.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFAE015552 for ; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 23:56:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gurney_j@efn.org) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by hydrogen.fircrest.net (8.9.1/8.8.7) id AAA03922; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:21:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19990917002124.23278@hydrogen.fircrest.net> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:21:24 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney To: Julian Elischer Cc: Robert Sexton , Alex Le Heux , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Superblock. References: <19990910102612.C31537@tabby.kudra.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: ; from Julian Elischer on Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 09:51:50AM -0700 Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney Organization: Cu Networking X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Julian Elischer scribbled this message on Sep 10: > At least one person has already written this program... > > THeey have mentionned this in the hackers list so maybe a search of the > list may turn something up.. > withing th last 2 years from memory. actually, it should be part of my ffsrecov program that I wrote... I'm not sure how well it works, but it should do what most people want to find the super block... > On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Robert Sexton wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 10:26:26AM +0200, Alex Le Heux wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I once had a similar situation: I had wiped my disklabel. > > > > > > > > I know its easy to suggest somebody else do things, but turning this > > into software might make for a very handy salvage tool, without a lot > > of work for the author. We seem to have folks popping up often > > looking for little projects. > > > > I wonder how many folks have toasted drives in a recoverable way and > > not bothered to ask for help.... [why can't people learn to delete sig's?] -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 541 684 8449 Cu Networking P.O. Box 5693, 97405 "The soul contains in itself the event that shall presently befall it. The event is only the actualizing of its thought." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message