Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:14:52 -0500 From: "Marty Landman" <martster@gmail.com> To: "Jerry McAllister" <jerrymc@msu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> Subject: Re: input/output error on hd Message-ID: <70063950702221514j78442bd9v142fda87311896ff@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070222225625.GA21524@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <70063950702221419s57a34f05p1bdee62713a67aae@mail.gmail.com> <6.0.0.22.2.20070222163157.0249d9f8@mail.computinginnovations.com> <20070222225625.GA21524@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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Jerry, Below is what I see in response to the cmd; as I'm unfamiliar with it could you please be more explicit about how I may proceed? Marty %sudo bsdlabel -e /dev/ad1s1 Password: # /dev/ad1s1: 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 490234736 16 unused 0 0 c: 490223412 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't edit ~ ~ On 2/22/07, Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 04:34:24PM -0600, Derek Ragona wrote: > > > You may have lost the partition table. You can try repartitioning the > > drive but do NOT do a newfs. You can easily try it in sysinstall. > > Yes, that has been mentioned - I wasn't sure if it would work as > desired - without overwriting too much - or not. But, if it is tried > , be sure to use the exact partition schema as was done before. I > think that was everything in one partition - called c, but I am not > sure that is exactly what was done. > > So, the question is, did the OP use bsdlabel (alone or in sysinstall) > when originally creating that filesystem? If so, probably using > bsdlabel again on it - WITHOUT doing a newfs - would be worth trying. > It probably can't do anything worse than what is already the case. > > If it was all one partition in a single slice, then run bsdlabel -e > on the slice /dev/ad1s1 and take out the unused type from 'c' and > make it BSD4.2. Make the offset '*' and the size be everything. > Then exit out and hope for the best. > > ////jerry >
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