Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 00:27:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org> To: "Mr. Darren" <darren780@yahoo.com> Cc: Mike Jeays <Mike.Jeays@rogers.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bad superblock question Message-ID: <20051010002555.K66304@tripel.monochrome.org> In-Reply-To: <20051010041553.34483.qmail@web34703.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20051010041553.34483.qmail@web34703.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Mr. Darren wrote: > I know, however it isn't fixing the first sector, it > uses the backup(already repaired it), and never at any > point does it fix the original. As a result, I can't > mount it and get it to boot up.. my /var is on this > drive. and is rather important. repeatedly running > fsck, it just asks to use the backup at sector 32. I > can't seem to find any other software to replace it or > edit it. I've read a fair amount of man pages now. If you have another disk to boot from, try mounting your old /var read-only. At least then you could get your data off it. HTH. > --- Mike Jeays <Mike.Jeays@rogers.com> wrote: > >> On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 14:29, Mr. Darren wrote: >> >>> I had an ide cable go bad, the harddrive was >>> unable to mount. I have since replaced the ide cable. when I fsck >>> I use the alternative superblock at 32 I believe. >>> How do I copy the alternative to the non-existant main? >> >> I think fsck does this automatically - you may have >> to reply "y" at the >> right place. -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ]
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