Using fsdb on damaged filesystems

[wry...@hotmail.com]

Can you tell me something more about fsdb that I can find in "man".
I would like to restore information on jaz disk installed on SCO unix
server. fsck CANNOT READ BLK: 1507324.
With fsdb I can see my files and directories but I can´t do nothing more.
Thanks,
Wojtek

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[Radek Tomis]

> From: <wry...@hotmail.com>
> Sent: Friday, December 17, 1999 2:30 AM

> Can you tell me something more about fsdb that I can find in "man".
> I would like to restore information on jaz disk installed on SCO unix
> server. fsck CANNOT READ BLK: 1507324.

Have you tried mounting the Jaz cartridge with read-only option ?

mount -r /dev/<JazFileSystem> /mnt

Try this, it usually works.

Alternatively, you may want to try `scsibadblk` command to scan the Jaz
cartridge for bad blocks and remap those blocks, then trying to use `fsck`
again.

> With fsdb I can see my files and directories but I can´t do nothing more.

If you won't be able to mount this Jaz cartridge, download
<http://members.xoom.com/rts101/tmp/fsrd> or
<ftp://ftp.mediumsoft.cz/private/rts/tmp/fsrd> and do this:

dev="/dev/<Jaz>"
./fsrd -e ${dev} dir -ir | ./fsrd -e ${dev} inode -v -dc - |
( cd <backup-dir>; cpio -iduvm )

to restore all files/directories.

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