On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 09:32:10AM -0400, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 10:33:24PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > But in this case you won't have the box reboot and let it run fsck.
> > Yoy will boot single user and play with fsdb.
> > fsck is the wrong tool for this.
> 
> I have a feeling trusting a clean boot to single user and fsdb(8) to
> make your world okay will lose, depending what our unmount(2) does.
> (No, I haven't checked. Yes, I should have, but I'm at work right
> now.)
> 
> So then, we're back to punching the reset button, after which you
> probably can't even get / mounted without a fsck(8). fsck(8),
> therefore, should really not destroy data I want to recover using
> fsdb(8). 

After reset boot singleuser and you get the unchecked / mounted read-only.
If your fsdb is not corrupt you may use it now.

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Juergen Hannken-Illjes - hannken@eis.cs.tu-bs.de - TU Braunschweig (Germany)