On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 12:39:31PM -0400, Ryan M. McConahy wrote:
> The problem is, it wasn't a fs. It was a tar file of .tgz files. And I'm
> pretty sure it was newfs'd. Whatever sysinst does. I was able to make a
> partition pointing to it. Most of the files are corrupted. One good thing:
> did I mention that I also had a gzipped version of this tar file of tgz
> files on /usr, which was also newfs'd? Maybe it's possible to stick
> them together and fix the holes...

Maybe. Is your /usr at the exact same place as the old one ?
If so, datas are still there but inodes have all been zeroed, so recovering
the file is a matter of finding the rigth blocks, and in the rigth order.

Otherwise, if you're lucky, the inode which had this file is intact and
you can recover at last parts of it. But you need to find a superblock of the
old file system.


> 
> And remember, I'm using the installation floppy...

I would suggest installing on another disk, or on a part of the disk you know
you don't have valuable datas. You'll needs more tools than are on the floppies
to recover.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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