> Bakul Shah wrote: > >>In the last episode (Jan 12), Christoph Kukulies said: > > >>dd if=/dev/ad2 conv=noerror,sync bs=64k | dd of=/dev/ad3 bs=64k > > > > > > So now on the new disk he has files with random blocks of > > zeroes and *no* error indication of which files are so > > trashed. This is asking for trouble. Silent erros are > > worse. > > > > He ought to do a file level copy, not disk level copy on > > unix. That way he knows *which* files are trashed and can do > > The problem is, FreeBSD panics when it encounters bad sectors in > filesystem metadata. I had the same situation ~a month ago and gave up, > restoring from old backups. It will also probably panic on corrupted or > zeroed metadata, but at least it's on a readable disk...
Good point. Would fsdb help? If not someone ought to extend it. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
