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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: fsck for a hard disk?
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Date: 3 Jun 90 22:42:59 GMT
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In <56897@bbn.BBN.COM>, cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell) writes:
>I've managed to mess up my hard disk a little bit.  Disksalv is all
>well and good, but far as I can tell [and I'd _love_ to be proven
>wrong!!] it is pretty useless for your biggest device, since there is
>nothing big enough to disksalv the device _to_.  fsck on Unix has the
>nice property of doing much of what disksalve does... but it manages to
>do it *in*place*.  Is there an equivalent trustworthy utility for Amy?

'A little bit'? Is that like 'a little bit pregnant'? ;-)

Disksalv will salvage to multiple floppies, though it will be a pain, as
multiple floppy operations always are, but it is do-able.  You can also salvage
to another HD partition, and stop Disksalv as the other partition gets close to
being filled, copying some files off to floppy, or perhaps Zooing or ARCing
them to make room. Any way you look at it, it's a bother, but if your most
recent backup is not good enough to restore from, there really isn't much
choice.

Diskdoctor is a pretty iffy proposition. While it sometimes will do an
admirable job, it will sometimes cause more grief than you eanted to hear
about. Diskdoctor's major fault is that is does things 'in-place', and
may not always do the right thing, or at least it may sometimes do the only
thing, but not what you would have wanted. Bottom line on Diskdoctor is that
even assuming it did the best job for you, you will still have to copy all the
files off and restore. I figure it's better to either do it manually or
Disksalv, then attempt a manual recovery.

-larry

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