ffs2recov option to get alternate superblocks

[kavitakr]

BROKEN_FreeBSD_13= Changes made to the ffs2 filesystem in FreeBSD 13 are no longer compatible with ffs2recov

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After we migrated to FreeBSD 13 this tool is broken.

In our legacy code we used to use ffs2recov -s $dev to get the alternate superblock for filesystem recovery.

ffsrecov(1):

-s Find possible superblocks in the filesystem. If there is a valid cylinder group following it, it will print out where the beginning of the file system is. This may not be correct if there are stray superblock/cylinder group pairs on the disk, such as in swap

Any alternative tool to do the same, to get the alternate superblocks when the filesystem goes bad?

 

[VladiBG]

newfs -N $dev

fsck_ffs(8) see -b flag

 

[kavitakr]

Thanks newfs -N $dev gives superblocks but I think if we created the filesystem with different options so the blocks shown are different from the one from fss2recov.


I did find one more tool find-sb and it lists all the superblocks properly . But incase of ffs2recov

superblock: 15032713216(byte), 29360768(block), cg: 15032778752(byte), 29360896(block), 1(nth), fs begin: 27263232(block), primary sb at: 27263360(block)

cylinder group also used to get listed which was useful . Is there any other tool to list full details like ffs2recov