From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 23 03:43:37 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB4C616A420 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 03:43:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B26EA43D64 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 03:43:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from [192.168.254.11] (junior.samsco.home [192.168.254.11]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1N3hVEL000272; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 20:43:31 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <43FD2F65.40908@samsco.org> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 20:43:33 -0700 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051230 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave References: <015701c63828$7af60a70$0200a8c0@satellite> In-Reply-To: <015701c63828$7af60a70$0200a8c0@satellite> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=3.8 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.1.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on pooker.samsco.org Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: urgent, need to recover superblock! X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 03:43:38 -0000 Dave wrote: > Hello, > Some urgency on this issue! I've got a 10 gb ide drive that has > critical data on one of it's > partitions /dev/ad1e. This drive was originally gmirrored in > another box it worked fine, it was the master drive. Now i've > installed this drive as a slave in another 6.0 box, and now it > shows up as ad1 with the partition i want being ad1e. I did a mount it > worked fine. So i knew the drive was working, i then unmounted the > partition, and tried to dump it to another drive. This didn't work, dump > got > an error about incorrect superblock. I then did a mount > -o ro /dev/ad1e /mnt and i'm getting an error "Incorrect > superblock" from mount. I then tried fsck /dev/ad1e and got the > same error msg. These partitions were formatted with ufs2 as their > filesystem. I then ran bsdlabel ad1 and got a printout of my label, > this showed up which gives me hope that this data can be retrieved. > An error i'm getting from bsdlabel says that the c: partition does not > cover > the > entire disk and that may result in utilities not working correctly. Any > help appreciated. > Some urgency! > Dave. Sounds like you need to install ports/syutils/ffsrecov and spend some quality time with it tonight. Scott