Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 12:22:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Aram Khalili <aram@cs.umd.edu> To: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: corrupted superblock/fsck problem Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0109181213220.10298-100000@toblerone.cs.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <200109180035.aa44033@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
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On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Ian Dowse wrote: > The master superblock is at block 16; the one at block 32 is indeed Yikes, I had assumed it starts at block 0. So what did I clobber? The boot block? The /home filesystem isn't bootable ... > Very little information of importance changes in the master > superblock, so there is no need to update the backup copies. Any > summary information can be re-computed by fsck, and most fields > are filesystem parameters that don't change. About the only things > you might want updated in the backup superblocks are the various > settings that can be changed with 'tunefs', and it has the -A option > for that. It doesn't include the count of used/free inodes and blocks in the filesystem (not the bitmap, just the count)? I'm more familiar with ext2, and I think it does. -aram To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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