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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.texas.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!EU.net!news2.EUnet.fr!newsbr.eunet.fr!usenet From: fgm@osinet.fr (Frederic G. MARAND) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Need your suggestions recovering partition Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1996 06:35:31 GMT Organization: Groupe SEDI / Agorus SA / OSI SARL / Lines: 16 Message-ID: <53cvvm$a4n@newsbr.eunet.fr> References: <52rlik$qib@zip0.zipnet.net> <536ddr$ba@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.107.196.155 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) wrote: >kot@zipnet.net (Mikhail Teterin) wrote: >> I would appreciate your help with recovery -- `fsck' is the only tool >> I know. My back-up is month old :( Thanks for your time! >Mikhail, you aren't new to the Unix world. You should have learnt >since that in such a messed state as you are in now, a good backup is >about the only hope you could have. Actually, in some cases, one can use fsdb to repair FS conditions that fsck can't process. It looks complicated when you consider its documentation, but simple manipulations can perform miracles. I have on some occasions brought back to life file systems that seemed dead, using it.