Re: [zfs-discuss] recover data after zpool create

2009-07-11 Thread stephen bond
Carson, please provide an example how to read bytes. I talk about cylinder because I don't know better. I need to read from a partition which shows as /dev/hda3 under Gparted with starting sector ending sector z. under solaris I think it becomes /dev/dsk/c0d0p3 I tried dd if=/dev/ds

Re: [zfs-discuss] recover data after zpool create

2009-07-08 Thread stephen bond
Kees, can you provide an example of how to read from dd cylinder by cylinder? also if a file is fragmented is there a marker at the end of the first piece telling where is the second? Thank you stephen -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] recover data after zpool create

2009-07-07 Thread stephen bond
None of the file recovery tools work with zfs. Testdisk is most advanced and the author is looking at incorporating zfs, but when will it happen nobody knows. I want to try with dd. Can anybody give me an example of how to read bytes cylinder by cylinder? Filtering the output is easy and I wi

Re: [zfs-discuss] recover data after zpool create

2009-06-20 Thread stephen bond
Thank you ! This is exactly what I was looking for and although this is zfs (not a Windows FAT) the time it takes to create a new pool (instantaneous) means all data is still there and only the table of contents was maybe erased. as unix directories are files, I suspect even the old structure ma

Re: [zfs-discuss] recover data after zpool create

2009-06-19 Thread stephen bond
Kees, is it possible to get at least the contents of /export/home ? that is supposedly a separate file system. is there a way to look for files using some low level disk reading tool. If you are old enough to remember the 80s there was stuff like PCTools that could read anywhere on the disk. I

[zfs-discuss] recover data after zpool create

2009-06-09 Thread stephen bond
is it possible to recover a file system that existed prior to zpool create pool2 device I had a mirror on device which I detached and then issued the create command hoping it would give me my old file system. thank you all. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org __

[zfs-discuss] power disruption

2009-06-06 Thread stephen bond
I was in the process of installing a new disk. zpool attach -f rpool old new then I was supposed to do installgrub stage1 stage2 new but I went away and there had been a power disruption and now the BE will not load at all. I have an older be which works (2008.11 and knows nothing about the n