From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 23 04:02:50 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 7F24116A420 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 04:02:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dmehler26@woh.rr.com) Received: from ms-smtp-01-eri0.ohiordc.rr.com (ms-smtp-01-smtplb.ohiordc.rr.com [65.24.5.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81F1343D5D for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 04:02:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dmehler26@woh.rr.com) Received: from satellite (cpe-65-31-41-159.woh.res.rr.com [65.31.41.159]) by ms-smtp-01-eri0.ohiordc.rr.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id k1N42brw018778; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 23:02:40 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <018f01c6382c$b3529c90$0200a8c0@satellite> From: "Dave" To: "Scott Long" References: <015701c63828$7af60a70$0200a8c0@satellite> <43FD2F65.40908@samsco.org> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 22:53:23 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2670 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2670 X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine 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 Reply-To: Dave 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 04:02:50 -0000 Hello, Thank you for your suggestion i will do that though i like the suggestion of using a vnode mounted image so i don't blow up the data i'm trying to save. Thanks. Dave. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Long" To: "Dave" Cc: Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 10:43 PM Subject: Re: urgent, need to recover superblock! > 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