From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 10 13:23:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA05696 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 13:23:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA05650 for ; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 13:22:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id WAA09338; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 22:18:46 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA04680; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 22:18:46 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id VAA00772; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 21:19:09 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199604101919.VAA00772@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: hard reading error To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 21:19:08 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199604100253.MAA19083@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Apr 10, 96 12:23:49 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Michael Smith wrote: > If you're using csh, something like this : > > # cd /dead_filesystem > # dump 0bf 10000000 - | (cd /new_filesystem; restore rvf -) I think you have to provide the `filesys' argument to dump. However, this filesystem doesn't need to be a mounted one. So better: umount /dead_filesystem # assume it was mounted from /dev/wd0e cd /new_filesystem dump 0bf 10000000 - /dev/rwd0e | restore rvf - I think dump handles files with bad blocks (read errors) halfways gracefully. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)