Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:16:14 -0800 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: thomas.exner@uni-konstanz.de Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disk recovery problem(s) Message-ID: <4ce6324e.0YK3%2BtFLmwsWGUh9%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <4CE4F4E4.10606@uni-konstanz.de> References: <4CE4F4E4.10606@uni-konstanz.de>
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Thomas Exner <thomas.exner@uni-konstanz.de> wrote: > when running fsck the first error message is "ROOT INODE UNALLOCATED" > ... > Is there a chance to get the data back? Dunno about current versions, but IIRC some earlier versions of dump(8) could handle even a badly-corrupted FS. No harm in trying, since it will not try to write anything to the FS being dumped. Of course, you need to find a place to dump it to (and I would _not_ advise piping the output into restore(8) in this kind of situation -- save the dumpfile itself somewhere in case you find yourself needing to hack on restore(8) to extract files from it).
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