Re: file system recovery

[buhrow%lothlorien.nfbcal.org@localhost (Brian Buhrow)]

        Hello.  If you have a running NetBSD-4 or NetBSD-5  system, have you
tried using the scan_ffs(8) program?
It's built into the base distribution and is in the /sbin directory.
        Also, what does strings -a  /dev/<raw partition> get you?
-Brian
On Feb 4, 12:21pm, mortee wrote:
} Subject: file system recovery
} Hello,
} 
} I don't really know where to ask this, so I'll try here again.
} 
} As I've posted earlier, I have a 5.0.1 i386 box with a dead backup
} filesystem (can't fond superblock), which I'd really like to recover.
} Can anyone help me regarding what my options/tools are for this? I'd
} hardly believe there are no tools whatsoever for recovering data from a
} corrupted BSD file system.
} 
} I've already tried the simple program posted here:
} 
} http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-i386/2002/05/25/0008.html
} 
} but to no avail. Actually, I've updated it to look for both
} FS_UFS1_MAGIC and FS_UFS2_MAGIC, but it doesn't print anything - not
} even for another, healthy file system. How can I scan the volume for a
} valid backup of the super block?
} 
} If I should ask these on some other forum, any suggestion regarding this
} is welcome also.
} 
} thanks
} mortee
} 
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