Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 13:10:21 +0200 From: Patrick Hurrelmann <outi@bytephobia.de> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/tools/tools/recoverdisk Makefile README recoverdisk.c Message-ID: <20050501131021.49bdfb7d.outi@bytephobia.de> In-Reply-To: <200409282200.i8SM015j016818@repoman.freebsd.org> References: <200409282200.i8SM015j016818@repoman.freebsd.org>
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On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 22:00:01 +0000 (UTC)
Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> phk 2004-09-28 22:00:01 UTC
>
> FreeBSD src repository
>
> Added files:
> tools/tools/recoverdisk Makefile README recoverdisk.c
> Log:
> This is a small tool which will read an entire disk(partition) using
> 1M blocks and optionally write the read data to a file or disk.
>
> If a read error happens, the 1M block gets put on the end of the
> worklist and will be retried with 64k blocksize.
>
> If a read error happens again, the 64k block gets put at the end of
> the worklist and will be retried with single sector reads.
>
> The program keeps trying until you stop it.
>
> You can refresh a disk:
>
> recoverdisk /dev/ad1 /dev/ad1
>
> or salvage a floppy:
>
> recoverdisk /dev/fd0 myfloppy.flp
>
> Revision Changes Path
> 1.1 +12 -0 src/tools/tools/recoverdisk/Makefile (new)
> 1.1 +21 -0 src/tools/tools/recoverdisk/README (new)
> 1.1 +137 -0 src/tools/tools/recoverdisk/recoverdisk.c (new)
Hi Poul-Henning,
is it possbile to mfc recoverdisk to RELENG_5? It proved to be VERY
helpful to me this week :)
Maybe this small tool can actually go into 5.4-RELEASE as it has been
delayed and doesn't seem to be an invasive change?
Patrick
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