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Date:      Mon, 24 Dec 2001 07:03:01 +1300 (New Zealand Daylight Time)
From:      Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org>
To:        Dennis Pedersen <mig@jyde.dk>
Cc:        "stable@freebsd.org" <stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 4,4 & Dump ->dscheck: negative b_blkno
Message-ID:  <Pine.WNT.4.43.0112240700330.1276-100000@den2>
In-Reply-To: <013401c18bb5$ae5015b0$0301a8c0@denniswork>

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On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Dennis Pedersen wrote:

>  Hi!
>  I'm having some problems with my Bsd box (FreeBSD mail.daydreamer.dk
>  4.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE #0: Tue Sep 18 11:57:08 PDT 2001
>  murray@builder.FreeBSD.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC  i386) if i use
>  'dump' or 'fsck /dev/adx' :/
>  I have installed the box from the 4,4 iso's that i have downloaded from the
>  ftp server. Thereafter i choose 'minimal' and during the disk partion i
>  dedicate the entire disk to FreeBSD.
>  Once everything is up and running i wanted to do a backup to my dat streamer
>  with dump (this process worked fine with BSD 4,3 and i only upgraded so
>  could catch any problems like this before it left my little testroom ;)).
>  When dump starts the following errors floods my console:
>  kommer /kernel: dscheck: negative b_blkno -1000450436.
>  Then i belived it could be my filesystem that was bad (according to some
>  posts i found on google) so i reinstalled it and still the same error. Oh
>  well then maybe the disk was bad or something , fsck /dev/ad2 then fsck
>  complains ** /dev/ad2
>  BAD SUPER BLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG
>  /dev/ad2: NOT LABELED AS A BSD FILE SYSTEM (unused)
>  Okai then, maybe this box was pretty lost so i tryed the same fsck stunt on
>  another FreeBSD 4,4 i installed recently and oh my the same Super block
>  error.
>
>  Anyone got a hint about what happend here?!

Last time I saw that error message, it was on a box with a pair of
"dangerously dedicated" disks, which seems to be the way yours is
partitioned too.

Workaround: back-up and repartition... :-\

-- 
Juha
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