Re: disk recovery tools...

2008-01-18 Thread Wojciech Puchar
From professional experience as a data recovery technician, I can tell you that ufs2 drives are among the hardest to recover from after a there is a little change as UFS2 use lazy inode initialization. so possibly lots can be recovered. but i don't know any soft that does it.

Re: disk recovery tools...

2008-01-18 Thread Wojciech Puchar
moving disks from an old server to a new one I suffered from a moment of brain fade last night and newfs'ed a drive I shouldn't have. One of that new crop that is so large you won't have an adequate backup for it... :( no rescue. newfs overwrote inodes that contained your files metadata.

Re: disk recovery tools...

2008-01-18 Thread fbsdq
with a subject this time... I've used /usr/ports/sysutils/testdisk to recover my BSD partitions, but it was just a HD failure/MBR nukage, no newfs was run on it - Try that. ]Peter[ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

disk recovery tools...

2008-01-17 Thread Enno Davids
Guys, moving disks from an old server to a new one I suffered from a moment of brain fade last night and newfs'ed a drive I shouldn't have. One of that new crop that is so large you won't have an adequate backup for it... :( So, just wondering if there are any disk recovery tools that might

Re: disk recovery tools...

2008-01-17 Thread Michael Hawkins
of brain fade last night and newfs'ed a drive I shouldn't have. One of that new crop that is so large you won't have an adequate backup for it... :( So, just wondering if there are any disk recovery tools that might be able to find whats left of the files or some portion thereof. My guess