Re: scan_ffs for UFS2

2003-02-24 Thread Hiten Pandya
for a simple > tool for everybody, and found scan_ffs several months ago > in the OpenBSD distribution (so it seems find-sb was like > reinventing the wheel) and Robert Watson suggested in a posting > december last year to adopt scan_ffs for UFS2. IMHO we should > reuse a already

Re: scan_ffs for UFS2

2003-02-23 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 3:40 PM +0100 2/23/03, Michael Ranner wrote: Am Freitag, 21. Februar 2003 Garance wrote: > > I don't know how find-sb compares to the program you're > talking about, but they sound kind of similar. Scan_ffs can print the lost disklabel for use with disklabel(8). Find-sb, that version from cvs

Re: scan_ffs for UFS2

2003-02-23 Thread Michael Ranner
einventing the wheel) and Robert Watson suggested in a posting december last year to adopt scan_ffs for UFS2. IMHO we should reuse a already written program with existing man pages, so we have the same sounding tools for the same tasks. I don't know what find-sb could do with your patches a

Re: scan_ffs for UFS2

2003-02-21 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 10:20 PM +0100 2/19/03, Michael Ranner wrote: Hello! I am trying to learn scan_ffs (original from OpenBSD, ported to FreeBSD by Robert Watson) about UFS2 on 5-CURRENT, but it will not find the Superblock and I dont understand exactly both for loops, especially that 512 byte increment. Scan_ffs

Re: scan_ffs for UFS2

2003-02-19 Thread Brandon D. Valentine
[ Originally crossposted to -hackers and -fs. This reply Bcc'd to -hackers, followups to -fs. ] On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 10:20:12PM +0100, Michael Ranner wrote: > Scan_ffs is a system tool from OpenBSD to recover erased disklabels > from your hard drive. Forgive me if I'm being dense, but what fe

Re: scan_ffs for UFS2

2003-02-19 Thread Michael Ranner
Am Mittwoch, 19. Februar 2003 22:20 schrieb Michael Ranner: > Hello! > > I am trying to learn scan_ffs (original from OpenBSD, ported to FreeBSD > by Robert Watson) about UFS2 on 5-CURRENT, but it will not find the > Superblock and I dont understand exactly both for loops, especially > that 512 byt

scan_ffs for UFS2

2003-02-19 Thread Michael Ranner
Hello! I am trying to learn scan_ffs (original from OpenBSD, ported to FreeBSD by Robert Watson) about UFS2 on 5-CURRENT, but it will not find the Superblock and I dont understand exactly both for loops, especially that 512 byte increment. Scan_ffs is a system tool from OpenBSD to recover erased