To clarify things. You backup is correct, but it's not necessary to backup the first 128 blocks of the arena partition. Its only contains the Venti configuration and the ArenaPart structure.
Here is an example of what I described in my precedent message. Create an arena partition at least as big as your original one, and format it: % dd -if /dev/zero -of arenas.img -bs 8192 -count 4194304 % venti/fmtarenas arenas arenas.img Then copy your Venti arenas from the beginning of arenas00 (128*8192) to the end of arenas059 (3932258*8192): % dd -if /dev/da1s4 -of arenas.img -bs 8192 -seek 128 -oseek 128 -count 3932258 Of course, '/dev/da1s4' can be 'fa' in your example. If you removed the first 128 blocks, you don't have to use '-seek'. Finally, write the Venti configuration, rebuild the index and Bloom filter, and start Venti. -- David du Colombier
