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From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org>
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Subject: Finding an LBA after a disk error
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After much revision I finally have a tool that does a pretty good job  
of identifying the usage of an LBA.  Its not perfect, but its  
normally only used with a disk with a bad sector.  It no longer needs  
the complete source distribution but can be built from the normal  
libraries.  It has been tested on FreeBSD 5.3 and 6.0.  One of the  
libraries it uses was introduced in 5.1 so its not likely to work on  
anything earlier.  It works on ufs1 and ufs2 formats and there is  
even a man page now.  It could be mnade into a port, but I am out of  
time right now.  A quick look at the documents for creating ports  
shows that it will take quite a bit of time to figure out that part.   
Contact me off-list if you would like to get it.