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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