Find file residing in block.

[John Welsh_2]

Hi all,
Is it possible to find what file is in a given block ?
I have a boot disk which has an irrecoverable bad block ( hardware error in uerf ) and I need to know what file I have lost. It is V5.1B using AdvFS.
Thanks,
John W.
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[Hein van den Heuvel]

I thought I remembered any hardware error being reported with the inode number. Maybe I'm dreaming. Check errorlog and/or /var/adm/message?

For the system to find the data to be bad, it must have been trying to use it. What was it doing at that time?

Anyway... two suggestions.... untested...

1) some brute force

find / -xdev | perl_script
perl_script:
$name = shift;
foreach (`/usr/sbin/showfile -x $name`) {
:

2) all force, no thinking
find / -xdev -exec xargs grep -c {} \;
... untill it hurts.


hope this helps some,
Hein.

[Venkatesh BL]

Did you try the 'salvage' command?

[John Welsh_2]

Hi Guys,
Sorry for the delayed reply. My customer decided to just go ahead and replace the disk and restore from backups so I didn't get a chance to try your suggestions. Thanks anyway.
Best regards,
John.
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[John Welsh_2]

Disk replaced and restored.