From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 10 04:31:34 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 877E616A41F for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 04:31:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from darren780@yahoo.com) Received: from web34702.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web34702.mail.mud.yahoo.com [209.191.68.151]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 28D4643D46 for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 04:31:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from darren780@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 65420 invoked by uid 60001); 10 Oct 2005 04:31:33 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=LGaySS/hl+MMXAdScrd9X2ZD59KLENK741teFIorxWRvO6skxIILB+JZdEQBeASHaA45ndAuqjvNcnNcJFP3xbfARSQx+qDapucm4TLBXUP2xN9lpvfepseVrbmwbrr2jfWdqK7zc0f7z3fOwZ148k6DVcF4Eknt6IElyP24mdk= ; Message-ID: <20051010043133.65418.qmail@web34702.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [199.126.144.128] by web34702.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 09 Oct 2005 21:31:33 PDT Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 21:31:33 -0700 (PDT) From: "Mr. Darren" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20051010002555.K66304@tripel.monochrome.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 04:31:34 -0000 It would be nice if I could do that, it only says bad super block. Because there currently is no super block at the begining of the drive. The rest of the drive seems intact because fsck can run off the superblock at sector 32 and finish's. At no point does it make a new superblock where I should have one. If anyone knows how to mount using sector 32.. that would be nice. -Darren --- Chris Hill wrote: > 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 <|> ] > __________________________________ Yahoo! Music Unlimited Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited/