From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 9 12:46:11 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C58D116A402 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2007 12:46:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from martster@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.224]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6432E13C4A5 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2007 12:46:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from martster@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i11so843021nzh for ; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 04:46:10 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=BDnNdO8+bTMCRNmPlEnxrdpmLNBK9jFHN6IcBthX5jzW7yjJoWygac+CP8Rq1ggt1dKwmgIpk0xbmqrAs7kdACQx+fZvPW2i7Z19Zk5hp+QHPdSEEKho+74a0CKlkgjsWexIYlxAezmX+6XgrRqCpENaoK+G61mhZfHIFoNZp8U= Received: by 10.65.152.17 with SMTP id e17mr15633549qbo.1171025170790; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 04:46:10 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.65.138.16 with HTTP; Fri, 9 Feb 2007 04:46:10 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <70063950702090446x712d7a94vb3b2a613a426d760@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 07:46:10 -0500 From: "Marty Landman" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: recovery after power outage X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 12:46:11 -0000 On 2/8/07, Pieter de Goeje wrote: > > If the slice and partition table are still intact (as they were before the > outage), a normal fsck -F on /dev/ad1s1a will get the pc booting again. Well I managed to get the machine booting by editing /etc/fstab %cat /etc/fstab # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/ad0s1b none swap sw 0 0 /dev/ad0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/ad0s1d /tmp ufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad0s1f /usr ufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad0s1e /var ufs rw 2 2 #/dev/ad1s1c /hoss ufs rw 2 2 /dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 That's a great start, however I'd like to recover what I can from ad1s1c. %sudo fsck -F ad1s1c fsck: exec fsck_unused for /dev/ad1s1c in /sbin:/usr/sbin: No such file or directory fsck: exec fsck_unused for /dev/ad1s1c in /sbin:/usr/sbin: No such file or directory What is that telling me? You > can do this from a FreeBSD live cd such as FreesBIE or the fixit cd. You > can > then fsck the the rest of the filesystems in single user mode. You may > also > want to use the live CD to backup the important bits before, ehm, further > corrupting/restoring the filesystems. ;) Sorry Pieter I'm lost again. Can't I use sysinstall? Fdisk? Wish I understood the next steps here. FWIW when I do a sysinstall and then use the fdisk utility I get Disk name: ad1 FDISK Partition Editor DISK Geometry: 30515 cyls/255 heads/63 sectors = 490223475 sectors (239366MB) Offset Size(ST) End Name PType Desc Subtype Flags 0 126 125 - 12 unused 0 126 490223412 490223537 ad1cs1 8 freebsd 165 490223538 11214 490234751 - 12 unused 0 Which appears that I perhaps have not totally hosed this disk up. Marty -- Web Installed Formmail - http://face2interface.com/formINSTal/ Webmaster's BBS - http://bbs.face2interface.com/ -- Web Installed Formmail - http://face2interface.com/formINSTal/ Webmaster's BBS - http://bbs.face2interface.com/