Re: FileSystem Corruptions? Very important Files at stake.

2005-10-09 Thread Christer Solstrand Johannessen
On Sat, 8 Oct 2005, Justin Wong wrote: Hi, I was wondering if you could help me. After searches on the internet turned up nothing, I found your site about your love for OpenBSD. My problem is that when I boot, I get an error /dev/rwd0a BAD SUPER BLOCK: VALUES IN SUPER BLOCK DISAGREE WITH

Re: FileSystem Corruptions? Very important Files at stake.

2005-10-08 Thread Alexander Hall
Justin Wong wrote: Hi, I was wondering if you could help me. ... Some of these files are photographs of my now deceased grandfather and are very important. After some disasters here, although in my/our case caused by human errors, I have written two programs that scans a file of choice for

Re: FileSystem Corruptions? Very important Files at stake.

2005-10-08 Thread Tony
The first thing to do is to copy the drive with the photos to fresh disk space before further damage is done to the originals. Expect recovery to be long and painful even with some tools to make it easier. There are people here that know a lot more about this than I, but the first thing is to get

Re: FileSystem Corruptions? Very important Files at stake.

2005-10-08 Thread Raymond Lillard
STOP -- DON'T DO ANYTHING ELSE w/o expert help at your side. Justin Wong wrote: Hi, I was wondering if you could help me. After searches on the internet turned up nothing, I found your site about your love for OpenBSD. My problem is that when I boot, I get an error /dev/rwd0a BAD SUPER