Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 22:53:23 -0500 From: "Dave" <dmehler26@woh.rr.com> To: "Scott Long" <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: urgent, need to recover superblock! Message-ID: <018f01c6382c$b3529c90$0200a8c0@satellite> References: <015701c63828$7af60a70$0200a8c0@satellite> <43FD2F65.40908@samsco.org>
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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" <scottl@samsco.org> To: "Dave" <dmehler26@woh.rr.com> Cc: <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> 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
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