Re: ffsrecov still broken port?

From: Daniel O'Connor (doconnor_at_gsoft.com.au)
Date: 05/29/05

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    To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
    Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 18:46:17 +0930
    
    
    

    On Sun, 29 May 2005 18:16, Christoph P. Kukulies wrote:
    > I can create a vnode (mdconfig) of that disk but trying to fsck on it
    > fails for obvious reasons, since I had to access the slices and not the
    > whole disk dump.

    What "obvious" reasons?
    Why fsck it at all? I would just mount it read only and then copy the
    essential data off it..

    How badly damaged is it?

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