urgent, need to recover superblock!

[Dave]

Hello,
    Thank you for your reply. How would i go about doing this copy so i 
could use a vnode on it? As i think i mentioned dump didn't like it. One 
other thing i can mount the ad1a, ad1d, ad1f, and ad1g partitions just fine, 
it's the ad1e partition only that is giving me the grief and that's the one 
i need!
Thanks.
Dave.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Edward B. DREGER" <eddy+public+spam at noc.everquick.net>
To: "Dave" <dmehler26 at woh.rr.com>
Cc: <freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 10:42 PM
Subject: Re: urgent, need to recover superblock!


> First, copy the entire drive to a file on another drive.  Don't mess
> around with the original drive.  The vnode disk driver is your friend.
>
> I can't find the quick-and-dirty tool I hacked up a few years back when
> I needed to recover a MBR... however one can scan a sector at a time,
> find likely partitions, then manually create a disklabel.  (You see why
> you want to play with an image mounted via vnode!)
>
>
> Eddy
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