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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:8444 comp.os.386bsd.misc:1897 comp.unix.internals:6842 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU!ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au!lugb!latcs1!wongm Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.internals Subject: About filesystem superblock Message-ID: <CKpBuz.A1J@latcs1.lat.oz.au> From: wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au (M.C. Wong) Date: Fri, 4 Feb 1994 13:23:22 GMT Organization: Comp Sci, La Trobe Uni, Australia Lines: 21 Hi, I am running FreeBSD-1.0.2. I got a thrashed filesystem (with some important data tar'ed gzip'ed), and all I got now is a lost+found directory with some strange files within it, after running fsck -y on it accidentally while having it mounted on a temporary mount point! My questions is : Is it possible to recover that filesystem by retrieving the original superblock replicated elsewhere, besides the one at beginning of system ? Also, having run the fsck -y, did it wipe out the original superblock at beginning of filesystem , and the replicated one ? If it is possible to retrieve the replicated one , Does anyone have any ideas or tools/utilities of simplifying the job ? Also, what is the frequency of superblock backup during initial newfs ? -- - wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au