From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 10 17:54: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web121.yahoomail.com (web121.yahoomail.com [205.180.60.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AC79137C0DD for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 17:54:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jasartist@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 17209 invoked by uid 60001); 11 Mar 2000 01:54:00 -0000 Message-ID: <20000311015400.17208.qmail@web121.yahoomail.com> Received: from [209.151.130.20] by web121.yahoomail.com; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 17:54:00 PST Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 17:54:00 -0800 (PST) From: Jas Subject: recovery of corrupted filesystem? To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi I hope this is the right list for this question... I have (had?) freeBSD 3.3 installed. Power to system went off without a shutdown command...on reboot of freeBSD as soon as kernel starts....i get a screen dump and the system re-boots. trying kernel.GENERIC doesn't help. can't even get to the point to boot into single mode.... I booted with the fixit CDROM and was able to mount the drive and I see that /usr directory appears empty...looks hosed? also tried fsck -b 32 /dev/rwd3s1 from fixit CDROM but on reboot same screen dump and system reboots on its own... I also tried alternate superblock of 65568 (as reported by newfs -N /dev/rwd3s1) with the same results... fsck reports bad superblock....i answer yes to questions...and when i run fsck again it gives same error...this process can be repeated ad-infinitum or until the user (thats me) gets bored.... Is this system recoverable? I don't want to re-install without giving the recovery procedure the old college try.... I looked at the 'fsdb' command.......but never used it since i figured I would only make matter worse... Suggestions appreciated..... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message