From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 26 11:59:48 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 055C516A407 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:59:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tech@nano.net) Received: from mail.smallweb.com (mail.smallweb.com [216.85.125.111]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B496C43D64 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:59:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tech@nano.net) Received: from Sixpence.mail.smallweb.com (sixpence.nano.net [216.85.125.9]) by mail.smallweb.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 5.3.11) with ESMTP id for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 06:07:35 -0600 Message-Id: <6.2.0.14.2.20060926055906.03034160@nano.net> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.2.0.14 Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 05:59:38 -0600 To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: tech@nano.net In-Reply-To: <20060926115651.GC952@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <6.2.0.14.2.20060925123108.03038af0@nano.net> <20060925190740.GI1154@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <6.2.0.14.2.20060925142809.0300e3e0@nano.net> <20060926115651.GC952@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Cc: Subject: Re: fsck X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:59:48 -0000 Thanks again, I'll be trying all these things this morning. At 05:56 AM 9/26/2006, you wrote: >On Mon, 2006-Sep-25 14:41:18 -0600, tech@nano.net wrote: > >The hard drive is in the fridge right now, in case it's a heat problem. > >It's FreeBSD version 4.x. It's getting hard read errors, > >You may have an error in an important sector so fsck can't fix it. > >As an alternative to the dd or cp suggestions, I'd recommend dump: >dump can handle unreadable sectors (though I'm not sure if FreeBSD's >dump will tell you which file or inode the sectors belonged to). >It's probably your best chance of getting the data off the disk. > > >-- >Peter Jeremy