From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 26 16:36:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA17667 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 16:36:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.camalott.com (mail.camalott.com [208.203.140.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA17581 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 16:35:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: from detlev.UUCP (tex-110.camalott.com [208.229.74.110]) by mail.camalott.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA31896; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 18:36:42 -0500 Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.9.1/8.9.1) id SAA13309; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 18:34:54 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from joelh) Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 18:34:54 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199808262334.SAA13309@detlev.UUCP> To: seggers@semyam.dinoco.de CC: mi@video-collage.com, seggers@semyam.dinoco.de, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199808262046.WAA26730@semyam.dinoco.de> (message from Stefan Eggers on Wed, 26 Aug 1998 22:46:15 +0200) Subject: Re: recovering disk From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.org References: <199808262046.WAA26730@semyam.dinoco.de> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > [Now the questions is how often this happens. Would it be worth to > make an additional disklabel and - for systems having it - fdisk > partition table recovery tool? How's the opinion on this?] You know what I'd like? A general disk editor, that can take its input by the block or by the file, with a hex editor as well as some special-purpose viewers. Something like Norton's Disk Editor. Said tool has been amazingly useful to me on many an occasion. Best, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message