From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 23 23:30:17 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3815437B401 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 23:30:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.clubplus.net (mail.clubplus.net [216.191.22.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0610543FCB for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 23:30:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from penglish@hydro.washington.edu) Received: from skytrackercanada.com (3s1.com [209.188.66.29]) by mail.clubplus.net (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h3O6Wu74004058 for ; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 02:32:58 -0400 Received: (from root@localhost) by skytrackercanada.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) id h3O6NDRx084187 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 02:23:13 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from penglish@hydro.washington.edu) Received: from skytrackercanada.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by skytrackercanada.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h3O6NCx1084157; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 02:23:12 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from david@skytrackercanada.com) Received: (from david@localhost) by skytrackercanada.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h3O6NBer084156; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 02:23:11 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from david) Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 02:23:11 -0400 From: David Banning To: Paul English Message-ID: <20030424022311.A84083@skytrackercanada.com> References: <20030423205306.D33633-100000@dynamic.hydro.washington.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20030423205306.D33633-100000@dynamic.hydro.washington.edu>; from penglish@hydro.washington.edu on Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 09:00:05PM -0700 X-scanner: scanned by Inflex 0.1.5c - (http://www.inflex.co.za/) X-RAVMilter-Version: 8.4.2(snapshot 20021217) (mail) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disk hard error - help! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 06:30:17 -0000 > different). > > Is there any way to force it to mount anyway and pick through the > wreckage? > > Does anyone know of any good data recovery services that deal with FreeBSD? > (or does anyone that does UFS work) Try booting from the cdrom and going into disk repair mode. I have been able to salvage that way several times. If you don't have the cdrom's I think there is a floppy boot image available on the site that you can use for disk repair. You just boot off the cdrom or floppy, and then you mount the root part of the drive, fixing any errors. Then you (hopefully can reboot from your main drive.