Superblock

HOWTO: Recover damaged FreeBSD UFS2 file systems with damaged master super-block

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注意：本文介绍的方法部分，假定读者对UFS文件系统，以及FreeBSD的日常操作相当熟悉；请勿轻易执行本文介绍的操作，本文中的操作，可能导致fsck_ffs(8)无法修正的严重问题。由于在此本人已明确告知读者这一风险，据此，对于由于执行这些操作导致的任何数据损失，本人明示不承担任何责任。