From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 10 04:25:23 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55D8616A41F for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 04:25:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Received: from mail.monochrome.org (b4.ebbed1.client.atlantech.net [209.190.235.180]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF79043D48 for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 04:25:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Received: from tripel (tripel [192.168.1.11]) by mail.monochrome.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA31162; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 00:25:19 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 00:27:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Hill To: "Mr. Darren" In-Reply-To: <20051010041553.34483.qmail@web34703.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20051010002555.K66304@tripel.monochrome.org> References: <20051010041553.34483.qmail@web34703.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Mike Jeays , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bad superblock question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 04:25:23 -0000 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 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 <|> ]