… are great. Here’s one I came across while trying to recover data from a hard disk image of a broken hard disk:
core backup # xfs_repair -f data.image Phase 1 - find and verify superblock... superblock read failed, offset 249108103168, size 2048, ag 0, rval 58 fatal error -- Success core backup #
fatal error — Success. Now that’s a useful message, isn’t it? Btw. the image wasn’t recoverable…
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