Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 21:08:03 -0500 From: "Marty Landman" <martster@gmail.com> To: "Pieter de Goeje" <pieter@degoeje.nl> Cc: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recovery after power outage Message-ID: <70063950702071808y74822ae3x816f51120ac291f4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200702071403.08184.pieter@degoeje.nl> References: <70063950702061806s281130c4labc112a018c2a19e@mail.gmail.com> <200702071403.08184.pieter@degoeje.nl>
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On 2/7/07, Pieter de Goeje <pieter@degoeje.nl> wrote: > > ad1s1c is a partition that contains the entire disk or slice in this case. > Dangerously dedicated is when you have no slices: ad1a, ad1b, ad1c etc. > You > should _only_ fsck the individual partitions (ad0s1a), never the complete > disk (ad0) or individual slices (ad0s1). You may risk destroying your > filesystem(s) if you do so. Unless ofcourse you know what you're doing and > you have placed a filesystem directly on either the disk or the slice it > self. I see, thanks for explaining that. If I can recover this disk then I'll partition it into a couple of slices and mount each of those instead of what I was now doing. > /dev/ad1s1c: NOT LABELED AS A BSD FILE SYSTEM (unused) > Yes, ad1s1c is normally not used as a filesystem, so you would better not > fsck > it. Oops, then what can I do? > Also it won't reboot now, although I've run fsck complete including on > > ads0. Do I have to edit /etc/fstab so ads1 isn't mounted to get a good > > boot? Unfortunately /usr isn't getting mounted and I have not editor > > available afaik. > It should not be necessary to edit /etc/fstab. However after what you've > described above it might be necessary to restore the partition table, mbr > and > slice table to get your system booting again. Could you please be more explicit Pieter? I don't know how to do any of that. Yikes! Marty
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