From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 21 10:21:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay.ucb.crimea.ua (UCB-Async4-CRISCO.CRIS.NET [212.110.129.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AA9237B5B3 for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 10:21:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ru@ucb.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by relay.ucb.crimea.ua (8.9.3/8.9.3/UCB) id UAA66258; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 20:20:24 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ru) Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 20:20:24 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Andy Wallace Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bad superblock magic number Message-ID: <20000221202024.E82626@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> Mail-Followup-To: Andy Wallace , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200002211757.LAA52989@physics.angelo.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <200002211757.LAA52989@physics.angelo.edu>; from Andy Wallace on Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 11:57:04AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 11:57:04AM -0600, Andy Wallace wrote: > Hello all, > > I am getting a "bad superblock magic number" > from the dump command. I've run fsck -p -f > several times, but still get the same error. > Checked handbook, FAQ, and man pages. Mail > archives are down...any suggestions? > fsck(8) will not try to use alternate super-blocks with -p. Either run `fsck /your_fs' without -p to make fsck(8) look at alternate super-blocks (answer `yes'), or just try `fsck -b32 /your_fs'. -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message