From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 28 09:04:18 2004 Return-Path: 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 880CD16A4CE for ; Mon, 28 Jun 2004 09:04:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from shockwave.systems.pipex.net (shockwave.systems.pipex.net [62.241.160.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A142E43D46 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 2004 09:04:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from robert@irrelevant.com) Received: from albert.mosthosts.net (81-86-155-6.dsl.pipex.com [81.86.155.6]) by shockwave.systems.pipex.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 329681C00361 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 2004 10:04:02 +0100 (BST) Received: from angua.irrelevant.com (dhcp88.internal.irrelevant.com [192.168.0.88]) by albert.mosthosts.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88A9335 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 2004 10:21:47 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <6.1.1.1.0.20040628095928.03a88e48@albert> X-Sender: irrelevant1@albert X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.1.1.1 Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 10:08:23 +0100 To: questions@freebsd.org From: Rob Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: help please? corrupted hard disc - invalid super block. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 09:04:18 -0000 Hi! I have a hard disc that I think must have been set up wrong initially... It was however working fine, but at some point filled up to capacity, wherapon the next reboot it failed to mount. System is 4.8-RELEASE, Generic Kernel. Currently the disc shows: luggage# mount -r /dev/ad5s1e /mnt mount: /dev/ad5s1e on /mnt: incorrect super block luggage# disklabel -r ad5 # /dev/ad5c: type: ESDI disk: ad5s1 label: flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 255 sectors/cylinder: 16065 cylinders: 14593 sectors/unit: 234441585 rpm: 3600 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # milliseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds drivedata: 0 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] c: 234436482 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 14592*) e: 234436482 0 4.2BSD 16384 16384 300 # (Cyl. 0 - 14592*) Warning, partition c doesn't cover the whole unit! Warning, An incorrect partition c may cause problems for standard system utilities luggage# fsck /dev/ad5s1e Can't open /dev/ad5s1e: Invalid argument luggage# fsck -b 32 /dev/ad5s1e Alternate super block location: 32 Can't open /dev/ad5s1e: Invalid argument luggage# file -s /dev/ad5s1e /dev/ad5s1e: can't read `/dev/ad5s1e' (Invalid argument). At this point I am stuck ... most of the "Invalid Super Block" messages I can find when searching relate to cd-roms. If I could mount the disc even read-only, I could copy the data off. Can anybody give me any clues on where to go from here? Thanks in advance, Rob