More running-with-scissors and fsck.
David Gilbert
dgilbert at dclg.ca
Tue Nov 2 22:26:59 PST 2004
Well... the recoverdisk is a cool tool. I can see it coming in handy
many times. While there isn't much documentation, I've tended to use it
by creating a vnode md disk of exactly the right size to recover the
partition in question.
And I have a problem now. recover disk finishes fine. In fact, of the
40G disk, it only can't recover about 210K. That's a tiny fraction of
1% unrecoverd.
However, it's all right around something key. When I run fsck on the
recovered image, fsck continuously complains that it can't create
lost+found.
On the origional disk, of the 210K that's bad, most of it is near the
start of the partition. I suspect inode 1 and friends are not recovered
... and thus all zeroed in the new md partition.
So... 99.99% of the data is there in good form. How do I recover this
... force a root to exist?
create an identical partion, newfs it and blindly copy the first 200 or
so K?
Need someone who knows something about the structure I'm stomping on.
Dave.
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