Re: fsck




Thanks again, I'll be trying all these things this morning.



At 05:56 AM 9/26/2006, you wrote:
On Mon, 2006-Sep-25 14:41:18 -0600, tech@xxxxxxxx wrote:
>The hard drive is in the fridge right now, in case it's a heat problem.
>It's FreeBSD version 4.x. It's getting hard read errors,

You may have an error in an important sector so fsck can't fix it.

As an alternative to the dd or cp suggestions, I'd recommend dump:
dump can handle unreadable sectors (though I'm not sure if FreeBSD's
dump will tell you which file or inode the sectors belonged to).
It's probably your best chance of getting the data off the disk.


--
Peter Jeremy

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