>>>>> "rs" == Roman Shaposhnik <r...@sun.com> writes:
   
    rs>    1. as a forensics tool that would let you retrieve as much
    rs> information as possible from a physically ill device

a nit, but I've never foudn fsck alone useful for this.  Maybe for ``a
filesystem trashed by bad RAM/CPU/bugs'' it is useful, but for a
physically bad disk I've always had to use dd_rescue or 'dd bs=512
conv=noerror,sync' onto a good disk before pulling out the fsck.

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