On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 09:06:23AM -0700 or thereabouts, Terry Lambert wrote: > Josh Brooks wrote: > > Long story short, I have a 4gig vn-backed filesystem. The file backing it > > is now missing the last 750megs ... I can vnconfig it, but when I fsck it > > I see: > > Probably the first thing you'll want to do is write a small program > to open the file and write a zero at the offset of the 750M to make > the "device" the right size. Most of the recovery tools, including > fsck, go into convulsions if the device size shrinks on them. So the > first thing you want to do is change the size back to what it should > be.
He said it used to be 4gigs, so one would have to write a zero at 4gigs. Or do this (slower, but it works): $ dd if=/dev/zero bs=1m count=750 >> myfile -- Josh > > -- Terry > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
