Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 13:33:02 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Doug Jolley <doug@footech.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Corrupted partition Message-ID: <19990211133302.A71962@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199902110258.SAA12915@footech.com>; from Doug Jolley on Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 06:58:10PM -0800 References: <199902110258.SAA12915@footech.com>
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On Wednesday, 10 February 1999 at 18:58:10 -0800, Doug Jolley wrote: > Hi -- > > I had some corrupted disk partions as a result of a power outage. > I was able to repair all but one using fsck. The one remaining > is a DOS partition; so, it isn't killing me to not have it. > However, I'd like to get it fixed. > > Here's what I get: > > # fsck -f /dev/wd1s1 > ** /dev/rwd1s1 > BAD SUPER BLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG > ioctl (GCINFO): Invalid argument > /dev/rwd1s1: can't read disk label Is this the DOS partition? You can't fix them with fsck. If Microsoft supplies any tools for file recovery, use them under a Microsoft platform. If it's a UFS partition, it looks like you're in bad shape. Try an alternate superblock; there's usually one at offset 32: # fsck -b32 -n /dev/wd1s1 Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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