Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 08:56:29 +0100 From: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de> To: Brian Wolter <bwolter@students.depaul.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2nd HDD problem Message-ID: <3AAC812D.94355FFD@i-clue.de> References: <Pine.HPX.4.21.0103101242570.24802-100000@ux1>
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Brian Wolter schrieb: > > two days ago the read/write head on my master hdd somehow got royally > messed up rendering the drive useless. today a replaced the master drive > and reinstalled FreeBSD. my second hdd, which i also used in conjunction > with the now ruined drive contains about 12 Gigs of data that i need back. > (both drives are UFS, partitioned under FreeBSD) > > i just finished reinstalling FreeBSD, but trying to mount the second > drive, that wasn't damaged, produces the error "incorrect super block". i > checked the label editor and the slices still exist, however the > corrosponding devices in /dev (should be ad5s1b and ad5s1e) don't. > > how can i create the appropriate device so i can once again mount this > drive without jepordizing it's contents? (or any other solution that would > work here) man MAKEDEV cd /dev sh ./MAKEDEV ad5 should do the job. Check the manpage and the header of this script first, since I answered without checking first ;) -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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