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Date:      Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:22:10 -0800
From:      Frank Mayhar <frank@exit.com>
To:        Matt Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Looking for help to reconstruct a corrupted UFS2 filesystem
Message-ID:  <1200856930.9818.2.camel@jill.exit.com>
In-Reply-To: <000801c85b94$f3a58ea0$1200a8c0@hermes>
References:  <000801c85b94$f3a58ea0$1200a8c0@hermes>

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On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 13:47 -0500, Matt Emmerton wrote:
> What are my options at this point?  Since all the superblocks are identical, 
> fsck always behaves the same.  I suspect that one of the key blocks that the 
> superblock points to is corrupted.  Is any of this data replicated on disk? 
> Can I troll the disk looking for intermediate blocks and easily chain 
> together portions of directory trees?

This kind of thing is why I put ports/sysutils/ffs2recov together.  You
won't be able to recover everything but you should be able to get a lot
of it back.
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