Re: Recovering partitions from disk image? *resolved*

2009-04-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
so write a short article about how you did this and why using "hardware RAID" solutions is bad, and put it on your website. it's AT LEAST funny that your hardware raid instead of protecting - rendered your data inaccessible. ___ freebsd-questions@fre

Re: Recovering partitions from disk image? *resolved*

2009-04-04 Thread snott
If anyone's interested, the last post I made about doing a bsdlabel, fsck, mdconfig etc on the damaged disk image worked. I have recovered all my files! Hooray!!! Skye -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Recovering-partitions-from-disk-image--tp22862006p22889910.html Sent

Re: Recovering partitions from disk image?

2009-04-03 Thread snott
Warren Block wrote: > > Looks like scan_ffs is reporting block size. I'd take a spare computer > with a blank disk and do a minimal FreeBSD install on it, setting the > units to blocks in the partition screen and duplicating the values given > by scan_ffs. Then connect your read-only image

Re: Recovering partitions from disk image?

2009-04-03 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, snott wrote: Update: I figured out how to get scan_ffs to read a file by looking at the program source (if it starts with / then it considers it a regular file to read instead of a device) and got the following results which matches well with the TestDisk output. $ scan_ffs

Re: Recovering partitions from disk image?

2009-04-03 Thread snott
Update: I figured out how to get scan_ffs to read a file by looking at the program source (if it starts with / then it considers it a regular file to read instead of a device) and got the following results which matches well with the TestDisk output. $ scan_ffs -s /recovery/disk0.img ufs1 at 108

Re: Recovering partitions from disk image?

2009-04-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hello FreeBSD gurus, I recently had the pleasure of trying to recover a failed RAID1 array. It consisted of two 120GB disks in mirrored configuration. Both drives have a ton of bad sectors, so bad that the 3ware RAID card stopped recognizing that there was a mirror at all. Having no other opti