Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 21:24:21 +0100 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disk recovery problem(s) Message-ID: <20090206202421.GA55683@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <18828.37913.857833.472632@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <18828.37913.857833.472632@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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--PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 02:48:41PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: >=20 > Had a power outage recently; when trying to fsck several > external hard drives I'm getting unexpected errors. > For example: >=20 > huff@>> fsck /dev/da3a > ** /dev/da3a > ** Last Mounted on /backup > ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes > ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames > ROOT INODE UNALLOCATED > ALLOCATE? [yn]=20 >=20 > a) what's probably happened? Error messages are explained in Appendix A of /usr/share/doc/smm/03.fsck/paper.ascii.gz Unfortunately it says that this error "should never happen". :-/ Is the drive connected by USB? Some USB disk interface chips are quite quir= ky. > b) is there a way to recover the data? Answer y, and all directorys and files found in the root will appear in lost+found, unless the attempt to allocate the root inode fails..=20 Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkmMnHUACgkQEnfvsMMhpyVuNgCgrWmxbaqCahbs9m1pSAi+2y4B rqcAnArd2mJlW/bB0Fxc7GrFoN4olA1P =QF8H -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr--
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