From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 21 19:15:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA06122 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 19:15:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA06117 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 19:15:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA23208; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 19:15:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 19:15:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Kristian Kennaway cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Corrupted disk slice In-Reply-To: <9704211504.AA08746@bragg> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, Kristian Kennaway wrote: > I'm having problems with a corrupted disk slice, which I would really > appreciate some help with. When I booted freebsd, the automatic fsck'ing > failed on my /dev/rwd1s4e with the error: > > Can't open /dev/rwd1s4e: Invalid argument > > And dumped me into single-user mode. Trying to mount the partition manually > gives: > > [morden] 0:33 ~ mount -t ufs /dev/wd1s4e /usr2 > > /dev/wd1s4e on /usr2: Incorrect super block. It's trying to mount a DOS logical disk in an extended partition. Make sure that /etc/fstab records this filesystem as a 'msdos' type FS. Are you sure it shouldn't be wd1s3? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major