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From: "Michael S" <msherman77@gmail.com>
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Thanks a lot everyone. As suggested by Ceri Davies, I fscked using
block 160. Now I am was able to boot into single user mode, fscking my
other partitions.

Thanks again to everyone for their help.

On 3/17/06, Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> wrote:
> On 17/3/06 12:30, "Michael S" <msherman77@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I've tried both. fsck_ffs /dev/ad0s1a also exits because of bad superbl=
ocks.
>
> If you used the default parameters when creating the filesystem then
> "newfs -N /dev/ad0s1a" should tell you where the alternate superblocks ar=
e
> and you may be able to use one of them with fsck_ffs's -b option.
>
> Don't forget the -N to newfs whatever you do though.  If you're
> uncomfortable using that, then just try block 32 or 160.
>
> Ceri
> --
> That must be wonderful!  I don't understand it at all.
>                                       -- Moliere
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