From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 10 08:39:40 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AAEB16A41F for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 08:39:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from oweandre@stud.ntnu.no) Received: from fri.itea.ntnu.no (fri.itea.ntnu.no [129.241.7.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E238843D46 for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 08:39:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from oweandre@stud.ntnu.no) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fri.itea.ntnu.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94F91AAFD; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 10:39:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [129.241.134.240] (m240g.studby.ntnu.no [129.241.134.240]) by fri.itea.ntnu.no (Postfix) with ESMTP; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 10:39:37 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <434A28D6.7080703@stud.ntnu.no> Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 10:39:50 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Owe_J=F8rgensen?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050404) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Mr. Darren" References: <20051010045825.48065.qmail@web34710.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20051010045825.48065.qmail@web34710.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Scanned: with sophos and spamassassin at mailgw.ntnu.no. Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: harddrive won't mount/boot, superblock can't be fixed. X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 08:39:40 -0000 Mr. Darren wrote: > I had a bad ide cable which I have now replaced. on > bootup the filesystem produced a lot of errors and I > lost my first superblock. I since fsck'd and repaired > the superblock at sector 32. At no time does fsck > create, fix, or transfer the sector 32 superblock to > the front of the drive. mount won't accept the drive > in the condition it's in(says no superblock, or bad > superblock.. different programs, different errors). > If anyone knows how I could get my data off and format > my /var drive, or possibly repair my damaged > superblock at the front of the drive with anyone of > the 50-some backups that exist throughout the drive. > > thanks > > Darren > > > > > __________________________________ > Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 > http://mail.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" try newfs -n to list the proper superblock backups for the partition. to fix, use fsck_ufs -b