More running-with-scissors and fsck.

David Gilbert dave at daveg.ca
Wed Nov 3 05:19:32 PST 2004


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.

Dave.


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