Re: file system recovery

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 12:21:26PM +0100, mortee wrote:
> 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 looked at a hexdump of the start of the filesystem.
The first 64k (it is ffsv2) is ok.
The superblock has 0x80 set on every other byte!

        David

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