From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 10 01:54:16 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD49016A4CF for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 01:54:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 953A843FF3 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 01:54:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr) Received: from parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr [134.157.10.1])hAA9sCqY093733 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 10:54:12 +0100 (CET) Received: from niobe (postfix@niobe.lpthe.jussieu.fr [134.157.10.41]) hAA9s7n28411 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 10:54:07 +0100 Received: by niobe (Postfix, from userid 2005) id CCD2C1BF80; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 10:54:06 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 10:54:06 +0100 From: Michel TALON To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20031110095406.GA411@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Antivirus: scanned by sophie at shiva.jussieu.fr Subject: Re: Really no one knows ?! X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 09:54:16 -0000 > Now, leaving apart that my lest backup dated a month ago, and it's > really stupid to lost all your data from a HDD without suffering any > hardware or software crash, I would really apreciate some ideas, links > whatever about what it is to do to avoid this to happend if the > future. Just an idea. This occurred to me once that the superblock and primary alternate were corrupted. Hence i was in the same unfortunate situation as you, fsck was not working. The situation was solved by running newfs with the -N flag on the slice. This printed the location of other copies of the superblock. Feeding that to fsck allowed to recover the filesystem, without losing anything. -- Michel TALON