From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Nov 9 19: 6:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C0CD37B401 for ; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 19:06:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.rotfl.com.au (eth1779.sa.adsl.internode.on.net [150.101.235.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A545243E3B for ; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 19:06:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Phil@Kernick.org) Received: by mail.rotfl.com.au (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gAA365pU014292 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Sun, 10 Nov 2002 13:36:06 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from Phil@Kernick.org) Message-ID: <3DCDCD1D.6030506@Kernick.org> Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 13:36:05 +1030 From: Phil Kernick User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eugene Grosbein Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: backups of SUPERBLOCK References: <3DCDCB60.1D1A34C2@kuzbass.ru> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.65.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Eugene Grosbein wrote: > > Is there an official way to get list of superblock backups for existing > filesystem, other than backup/newfs/restore ? > Yes. Use newfs -N which will print out the superblock locations. My experience also tells me to also put exactly the same parameters on the newfs line that you used when you originally created the volume. From the newfs(8) manpage: -N Cause the file system parameters to be printed out without really creating the file system. Phil. -- _-_|\ Phil Kernick E-Mail: Phil@Kernick.org / \ ROTFL Enterprises Mobile: 041 61 ROTFL \_.-*_/ v Humourist, satirist, and probably a few more 'ists to boot! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message