Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 00:06:12 -0800 (PST) From: "Scott I. Remick" <scott@sremick.net> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: "Cannot find file system superblock" error - how to recover? Message-ID: <20031203080612.54273.qmail@web41110.mail.yahoo.com>
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Running 5.1-REL on a system w/ 2 drives. Was saving a file to 2nd drive (mounts as /data) and system suddenly froze then rebooted. Never good. Fsck barfed on startup telling me I had to run it manually. The error I'm stuck with is: /dev/ad6s1c Cannot find file system superblock /dev/ad6s1c: NOT LABELED AS A BSD FILE SYSTEM Searching on this error hasn't been very productive. Some people talk about a "LOOK FOR ALTERNATE SUPERBLOCKS?" question that I'm not getting when I run fsck. There's also mention of an undocumented -b option to fsck for fixing this. Then there's some scary manual method using dd: dd if=/dev/ad6s1c skip=32 of=/dev/ad6s1c seek=16 bs=512 count=16 But before I do that I definitely want confirmation. Please tell me there's hope for this drive...this Windows PC makes me feel dirty. Thanks in advance. :) ===== Scott I. Remick --==-- ICQ: 450152 Save the internet - Use a Mozilla-based browser: http://vtbsd.net/mozilla/ FreeBSD: Because making unix user-friendly is easier than debugging Windows. http://vtbsd.net/freebsd/ "Voici mon secret. Il est tres simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." Q: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. A: Why is putting a reply at the top of the message frowned upon?
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