Re: Recovering partitions from disk image? *resolved*

2009-04-04 Thread snott
If anyone's interested, the last post I made about doing a bsdlabel, fsck, mdconfig etc on the damaged disk image worked. I have recovered all my files! Hooray!!! Skye -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Recovering-partitions-from-disk-image--tp22862006p22889910.html Sent

Re: Recovering partitions from disk image?

2009-04-03 Thread snott
Warren Block wrote: > > Looks like scan_ffs is reporting block size. I'd take a spare computer > with a blank disk and do a minimal FreeBSD install on it, setting the > units to blocks in the partition screen and duplicating the values given > by scan_ffs. Then connect your read-only image

Re: Recovering partitions from disk image?

2009-04-03 Thread snott
Update: I figured out how to get scan_ffs to read a file by looking at the program source (if it starts with / then it considers it a regular file to read instead of a device) and got the following results which matches well with the TestDisk output. $ scan_ffs -s /recovery/disk0.img ufs1 at 108

Recovering partitions from disk image?

2009-04-02 Thread snott
Hello FreeBSD gurus, I recently had the pleasure of trying to recover a failed RAID1 array. It consisted of two 120GB disks in mirrored configuration. Both drives have a ton of bad sectors, so bad that the 3ware RAID card stopped recognizing that there was a mirror at all. Having no other opti

sysctl kern.msgbuf changed in 7.0?

2008-09-25 Thread snott
On my FreeBSD 6 box, "sysctl kern.msgbuf" shows the same content as "dmesg" But on FreeBSD 7, kern.msgbuf is empty. Has something changed? Thanks, Skye -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/sysctl-kern.msgbuf-changed-in-7.0--tp19679848p19679848.html Sent from the freebsd-que

Re: Maximum swap size?

2008-06-30 Thread snott
eman wrote: > > snott wrote: >> Is there a maximum swap size limitation? I'm using a 64-bit arch and >> only >> seem to get about 32GB of usable swap out of a 250GB disk (all of >> /dev/ad6) >> >> Thanks, Skye > > My first question is, why ar

Maximum swap size?

2008-06-30 Thread snott
Is there a maximum swap size limitation? I'm using a 64-bit arch and only seem to get about 32GB of usable swap out of a 250GB disk (all of /dev/ad6) Thanks, Skye # uname -a FreeBSD XX 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 10:35:36 UTC 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GE