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Date:      Sat, 25 Sep 1999 01:07:54 -0700
From:      Scott Corey <sbcorey@azstarnet.com>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        "Oleg L. Tortseff" <skiller@dmitrov.ru>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problem with repearing damaged filesystem!
Message-ID:  <99092501083500.05122@dialup09ip121>
References:  <19990925092638.Z54407@freebie.lemis.com>

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On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Greg Lehey wrote:
> On Friday, 24 September 1999 at  9:02:50 -0700, Scott B. Corey wrote:
> > On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Oleg L. Tortseff wrote:
> >> Hello, people!
> >>
> >>    I have an HDD and %subj%.   :(
> >>
> >> When i'm tryin' do something like 'disklabel -r wd3' system is sayin' to me:
> >> 'disklabel: /dev/rwd3c: Undefined error: 0'
> >> Same message I see when i'm launching disklabel with other options.  :(
> >>
> >> What do I need to do to repear filesystems on HDD in this case?   All data on it
> >> is present and readable with DiskEditor (from Norton Utilities packet), but
> >> filesystems are fragmented and many files on it are in pieces...
> >
> > Read man fsck
> > Download fixit.flp from the floppies directory at ftp.ru.freebsd.org or if you
> > have the CD, it is in  /cdrom/floppies
> > Make a fixit floppy:
> > run fsck on /dev/wd3c
> 
> This is not correct.  You run fsck against the individual file
> systems, not the c partition, which represents the entire disk.
> Oleg's error message indicates that the file label is so messed up
> that he can't even read it.  This is bad stuff.
> 
> Greg

I stand corrected again, man what a day!



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