Re: ways to restore data from crashed disk

Eric Sandeen
2007-05-31T13:37:38Z

Jaap Struyk wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Recently my server drive has crashed and I'am trying to get some data of it.
> The only problematic part is my xfs partition, the drive has some
> "holes" in it, unfortunatly on the place where the superblock would be.
> I did:
> dd_rhelp /dev/hdb4 hdb4.img
> xfs_repair -f hdb4.img
> Phase 1 - find and verify superblock...
> superblock read failed, offset 9397895168, size 2048, ag 1, rval 0

For starters, is the file really that big? (9397895168 bytes?)

-eric

> Is there an alternative available on xfs or a way to recreate it?