Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 12:04:08 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Brian McCann <bjm1287@ritvax.isc.rit.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dirty shutdown and I'm now stuck Message-ID: <20030317013408.GH4895@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <000001c2ec20$50aa6c90$2f811581@garfield> References: <000001c2ec20$50aa6c90$2f811581@garfield>
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--y0Ed1hDcWxc3B7cn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday, 16 March 2003 at 19:58:25 -0500, Brian McCann wrote: > Ok...I just had a system crash that I was working on. When coming back > up, I got an error that says it cannot read a block on the disk, and to > run fsck manually. When I run "fsck -f /dev/adwhatever" it just says > the same thing, listing the blocks it can't read, asks "Continue [yn]", > and no matter what I choose, I still can't mount it. Anyone have any > ides on how to fix this? Looks like it's time to dig out your backups. "Can't read a block" normally means that the disk is dying. You may be able to salvage something by mounting read-only and trying to copy to a new disk. You don't need a clean file system for a read-only mount. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers --y0Ed1hDcWxc3B7cn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+dSYQIubykFB6QiMRAgn6AKCuRq5KTD8goeYrZEfxJvf4tRtNBACfd8ep BqQc26LfGyqso0EzEoWQamM= =vSFL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --y0Ed1hDcWxc3B7cn-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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