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Date:      Fri, 24 Feb 2006 08:32:39 +0100
From:      Florent Thoumie <flz@xbsd.org>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Cc:        Dave <dmehler26@woh.rr.com>, Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
Subject:   Re: urgent, need to recover superblock!
Message-ID:  <200602240832.44125.flz@xbsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <43FD2F65.40908@samsco.org>
References:  <015701c63828$7af60a70$0200a8c0@satellite> <43FD2F65.40908@samsco.org>

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On Thursday 23 February 2006 04:43, Scott Long wrote:
> Dave wrote:
> > Hello,
> >    Some urgency on this issue!    I've got a 10 gb ide drive that has
> > critical data on one of it's
> > partitions /dev/ad1e. This drive was originally gmirrored in
> > another box it worked fine, it was the master drive. Now i've
> > installed this drive as a slave in another 6.0 box, and now it
> > shows up as ad1 with the partition i want being ad1e. I did a mount it
> > worked fine. So i knew the drive was working, i then unmounted the
> > partition, and tried to dump it to another drive. This didn't work, dump
> > got
> > an error about incorrect superblock. I then did a mount
> > -o ro /dev/ad1e /mnt and i'm getting an error "Incorrect
> > superblock" from mount. I then tried fsck /dev/ad1e and got the
> > same error msg. These partitions were formatted with ufs2 as their
> > filesystem. I then ran bsdlabel ad1 and got a printout of my label,
> > this showed up which gives me hope that this data can be retrieved.
> > An error i'm getting from bsdlabel says that the c: partition does not
> > cover
> > the
> > entire disk and that may result in utilities not working correctly. Any
> > help appreciated.
> >    Some urgency!
> > Dave.
>
> Sounds like you need to install ports/syutils/ffsrecov and spend some
> quality time with it tonight.

I'll add ports/sysutils/testdisk to the list of useful tools.

=2D-=20
=46lorent Thoumie
flz@FreeBSD.org
=46reeBSD Committer

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