Ivan Voras wrote this message on Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 18:48 +0100: > Bakul Shah wrote: > >>In the last episode (Jan 12), Christoph Kukulies said: > > >>dd if=/dev/ad2 conv=noerror,sync bs=64k | dd of=/dev/ad3 bs=64k > > > > > >So now on the new disk he has files with random blocks of > >zeroes and *no* error indication of which files are so > >trashed. This is asking for trouble. Silent erros are > >worse. > > > >He ought to do a file level copy, not disk level copy on > >unix. That way he knows *which* files are trashed and can do > > The problem is, FreeBSD panics when it encounters bad sectors in > filesystem metadata. I had the same situation ~a month ago and gave up, > restoring from old backups. It will also probably panic on corrupted or > zeroed metadata, but at least it's on a readable disk...
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