On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 17:33:50 -0500
Brooks Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Gotcha - i thought as much... i hoped a dump -0 would save enough info
> > though. I just needed to have /tmp back in place asap....
> >
> > i'll keep the files around for a week or so in case something comes up.
>
> Good thought, but anything short of "dd if=/dev/<tmpdevices>
> of=/path/to/some/location" probably won't preserve the corrupt bits.
> Think of dump as a version of tar that also knows how to read file
> systems directly. It only preserves files and their contents not the
> actual file system bits on the disk
Yes, I realise that now, it was late and I wasn't thinking too straight
obviously.
BTW, the mount in 6.1-RELEASE CD had no issue at all mounting the filesystem..
dump I used was 6.1-RELEASE too . would have been user land app related, or
actual UFS kernel code that made the difference?
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