More running-with-scissors and fsck.
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Wed Nov 3 05:30:36 PST 2004
In message <4188DADD.4020907 at daveg.ca>, David Gilbert writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
>>In message <41887A33.2060608 at dclg.ca>, David Gilbert writes:
>>
>>
>>>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.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>You could just have used a regular file for it and connected it to a
>>md later on.
>>
>>
>It won't create the file by itself. I created the md disk because I
>didn't take the time to read the code, I suppose. It would make people
>"feel" better if it created the target file when it didn't exist.
I would be really happy to see somebody improve on my little hack,
there are many things that could be improved about it, and if they
were, it would be a good addition to src/sbin
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