finding alternate superblocks in ffs

[Christoph P. Kukulies]

On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 02:42:18PM -0500, Brian Reichert wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 12:42:10PM +0100, Christoph P. Kukulies wrote:
> > Yesterday a major desaster happened: I stumbled across the power cable of my
> > Dell Inspiron notebook. The notebook fell to the floor. FreeBSD was running
> > at that time. Nothing seemed to got damaged, just a palm rest popped off.
> 
> Wouldn't 'newfs -n <options>' tell you were they would be (assuming
> you can recreate the options used on your FS to begin with)?

you mean -N ?

Indeed. That prints the superblock backups. Nice option.

I was able to dd if=/dev/ad2s1e without any errors (funny that the
fsck says it cannot read lotsa blocks).

I moved that  (10GB) dump to another machine where I might
mount it on a virtual device and perform further recovery measures.

Any ideas how to proceed?


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Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku_at_kukulies.org