Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 14:03:46 -0800 (PST) From: Mark Miller <joup@bnet.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: retrieving data from a failing drive Message-ID: <20021111135649.S8068-100000@soda.csua.berkeley.edu>
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Hi, I have a 20G /usr partition (IDE drive) that is reporting hard errors at a certain sector. I've run fsck -y many times, and each time it hits the bad sector, it falls back from DMA to PIO mode, and finally exits, saying "The filesystem is still marked dirty, please run fsck again." I'm looking around for a new drive that I can restore to, but I don't know how to read data off a dirty filesystem. Is there any way I can force the FS to be marked clean, or to mount a dirty filesystem (possibly in read-only mode)? OTOH, would something like netbsd's g4u (ghost for unix) help me out here? TIA Mark Miller To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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