Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 16:12:30 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Thomas Gutzler <giggel@hadiko.de> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: recover superblock Message-ID: <20030825161221.U3593@gamplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <20030824232636.GC14668@brain.hadiko.de> References: <20030824192611.GA14668@brain.hadiko.de> <20030824232636.GC14668@brain.hadiko.de>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Thomas Gutzler wrote: > Problem solved. > > I could restore the superblock using: > dd if=<disk> skip=32 of=<disk> seek=16 bs=512 count=16 > > Thx to > http://groups.google.de/groups?selm=Pine.BSF.4.21.0212150052530.41793-100000_root.org%40ns.sol.net&oe=UTF-8&output=gplain Not really solved. fsck_ffs is supposed to be able to find alternative superblocks automatically, and the primary superblock shouldn't get trashed. Apparently the first alternative is at offset 32 (this is a normal place for it IIRC), but fsck_ffs can't find it there for some reason. Bruce
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20030825161221.U3593>