fsck

[tech at nano.net]

Thanks again, I'll be trying all these things this morning.



At 05:56 AM 9/26/2006, you wrote:
>On Mon, 2006-Sep-25 14:41:18 -0600, tech at nano.net wrote:
> >The hard drive is in the fridge right now, in case it's a heat problem.
> >It's FreeBSD version 4.x. It's getting hard read errors,
>
>You may have an error in an important sector so fsck can't fix it.
>
>As an alternative to the dd or cp suggestions, I'd recommend dump:
>dump can handle unreadable sectors (though I'm not sure if FreeBSD's
>dump will tell you which file or inode the sectors belonged to).
>It's probably your best chance of getting the data off the disk.
>
>
>--
>Peter Jeremy