From owner-freebsd-current Sat Aug 29 20:50:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA05991 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 20:50:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.camalott.com (mail.camalott.com [208.203.140.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA05986 for ; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 20:50:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: from detlev.UUCP (tex-89.camalott.com [208.229.74.89]) by mail.camalott.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA24771; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:50:37 -0500 Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.9.1/8.9.1) id WAA05934; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:48:47 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from joelh) Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:48:47 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199808300348.WAA05934@detlev.UUCP> To: tlambert@primenet.com CC: seggers@semyam.dinoco.de, mi@video-collage.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199808290134.SAA29280@usr01.primenet.com> (message from Terry Lambert on Sat, 29 Aug 1998 01:34:16 +0000 (GMT)) Subject: Re: recovering disk From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.org References: <199808290134.SAA29280@usr01.primenet.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>> [Now the questions is how often this happens. Would it be worth to >>> make an additional disklabel and - for systems having it - fdisk >>> partition table recovery tool? How's the opinion on this?] >> You know what I'd like? A general disk editor, that can take its >> input by the block or by the file, with a hex editor as well as some >> special-purpose viewers. Something like Norton's Disk Editor. Said >> tool has been amazingly useful to me on many an occasion. > xvi /dev/rsd0e. Let's start with me reminding you that I had asked for special-purpose viewers, like superblock and directory block viewers or some such. Best, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message