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Re: too many inodes?



michael.cheponis%gmail.com@localhost (Michael Cheponis) writes:

>There is some progress.  The trick is the -N flag to newfs, which shows
>plenty of super-block backups:


These aren't necessarily the same block numbers that were used when the
filesystem was created.

You can use scan_ffs to search for backup superblocks. scan_ffs just
uses a heuristic and doesn't handle wedges, so you may get some erroneous
matches and error messages too. But you should also find some sane
copies if there are any left.

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