From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 20 01:34:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA01550 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 01:34:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from www.nation-net.com (www.nation-net.com [194.159.125.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA01545 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 01:34:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from mag.nation-net.com (194.159.125.14) by www.nation-net.com with SMTP (Apple Internet Mail Server 1.0); Thu, 20 Feb 1997 09:38:53 +0000 Message-ID: <330C1AA8.3FB5@nation-net.com> Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 09:34:32 +0000 From: Paul Walsh Organization: NATION-NET X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: dump vs. badsect help X-URL: http://www.nation-net.com/geek/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Long term problem. Why can't I restore a dumped fs which has had bad sectors saved off with the badsect program? File systems /var and / restore OK. But /usr (where the BAD folder is) won't have it. The error with 'restore tf' tells me it can't read the fs , skipping blocks etc. Is this a known problem with badsect?