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Date:      Mon, 21 Apr 1997 19:15:14 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Kristian Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Corrupted disk slice
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970421191426.23172G-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <9704211504.AA08746@bragg>

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On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, Kristian Kennaway wrote:

> I'm having problems with a corrupted disk slice, which I would really 
> appreciate some help with. When I booted freebsd, the automatic fsck'ing 
> failed on my /dev/rwd1s4e with the error:
> 
> Can't open /dev/rwd1s4e: Invalid argument
> 
> And dumped me into single-user mode. Trying to mount the partition manually
> gives:
> 
> [morden] 0:33 ~ mount -t ufs /dev/wd1s4e /usr2
> 
> /dev/wd1s4e on /usr2: Incorrect super block.

It's trying to mount a DOS logical disk in an extended partition.  Make
sure that /etc/fstab records this filesystem as a 'msdos' type FS.

Are you sure it shouldn't be wd1s3?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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