Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 14:28:09 -0500 From: David Gilbert <dave@daveg.ca> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: fsck --run-with-scissors Message-ID: <41868E49.8070809@daveg.ca>
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You know... I've had a number of unrelated disk failures in the last 7 days. In general, we have backups. Some of the failures are such that I can still mount the fs readonly and avoid the dead area and get the last iota of data off, but some are not. It would be really useful if fsck_ffs had a --run-with-scissors mode. Meaning a mode of last resort that may or may not make the disk work and may or may not totally screw with the disk. As an example, my laptop drive died. I don't really care about the data on disk because it's backed up. However, it will be another day before Dell shows up with a new drive... meaning that now I'm suffering in XP. In many cases, if the block-in-question was written to (even though it can't be read), it would be reallocated by the drive logic. Run with scissors should write all zeros to a block it can't read. Are there any equivalents to --run-with-scissors? Dave.
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