From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 18 1:31:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mojave.lemis.com (mojave.lemis.com [192.109.197.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79B2514BE7 for ; Sun, 18 Jul 1999 01:31:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (grog@localhost) by mojave.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.6.12) id OAA01598; Fri, 16 Jul 1999 14:39:14 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19990716143914.34860@mojave.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 14:39:14 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Yusuf Goolamabbas , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Trying to understand this fsck error message References: <19990715081824.20533.qmail@yusufg.portal2.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <19990715081824.20533.qmail@yusufg.portal2.com>; from Yusuf Goolamabbas on Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 08:18:24AM -0000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [removing FreeBSD-scsi] On Thursday, 15 July 1999 at 8:18:24 -0000, Yusuf Goolamabbas wrote: > Hi, After a power failure whilst bringing up a machine I got the > following errors from fsck > > The following disk sectors could not be read 16 ,17,18,..., 31 > > /dev/rda1s1a not labelled as a BSD file system > > Is there any workaround for this or do I treat the disk as a lost cause Looks as if you have lost the beginning of your file system, possibly as the result of a hardware error. Try the alternate superblock at offset 32 (fsck -b 32). Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message