From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 8 02:29:25 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77E3316A41F for ; Sat, 8 Oct 2005 02:29:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danny@ricin.com) Received: from smtpq3.home.nl (smtpq3.home.nl [213.51.128.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B6EC43D45 for ; Sat, 8 Oct 2005 02:29:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danny@ricin.com) Received: from [213.51.128.132] (port=42512 helo=smtp1.home.nl) by smtpq3.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1EO4Sf-00064M-1E; Sat, 08 Oct 2005 04:29:21 +0200 Received: from cp464173-a.dbsch1.nb.home.nl ([84.27.215.228]:51877 helo=desktop.homenet) by smtp1.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1EO4Sd-0004xu-Mh; Sat, 08 Oct 2005 04:29:19 +0200 From: Danny Pansters To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2005 04:28:26 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <4345D57B.7090407@computerking.ca> In-Reply-To: <4345D57B.7090407@computerking.ca> X-Face: :N, f2_*44g[tRY8Y-gL2zi`G|<6SpFjTeHt|V5LO6Yl2E7yAfEh{E6-8pqxUFX"l)=?utf-8?q?Nm8y=7E=0A=09IWJSAWQ=7D+=3DpP=7CT=5D?=@sy1sz%h)*CW6gtbp]"fe@MjICtIUo.0, CH~{[R4PXSyL MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200510080428.26564.danny@ricin.com> X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@home.nl for more information X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean Cc: RYAN vAN GINNEKEN Subject: Re: disk errors help!! 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: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 02:29:25 -0000 On Friday 7 October 2005 01:55, RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote: > My freebsd 4.11 system has been subjected to a power failure and seems > to have many disk errors something about soft updates and not being able > to read certain sectors it comes up with the standard single user pick > your shell command and tells me to run fsck manually. I have run it > several times but the system keeps comming with ad0s4 marked dirty which > is my /usr partition. Doesn't it go all through the list (everyting should be - if recoverable - in lost+found after you answered "Y" to everything that you think would be important). If you have to reboot all the time at this stage already uhm you're doing bad. > Sometimes i get a resetting device ata0 timeout > error. Most important info. Your drive is dying. Might be fast or slow but it is going. Switch to mayhem mode. > What should i do of course i have no current backups for this > system and the most important thing is retrieving my users data it would > be great if i could get the system to boot up but if i have to reinstall > no biggy as long as i can get most of my data back. Stop rebooting, save the drive or what's left of it, put it into another box and try to salvage your data from there. Get it out of that box. You never know if its solely a disk issue or perhaps a south bridge that cracked or what have you. Stop booting it. > ps i promise to do remote backups nightly for the rest of my life. Oh well. Real men and all that :) Just my NSHO, Dan