From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 11 23:55: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B9EE37B719 for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 23:55:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id KAA14058; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 10:01:37 +0100 Message-ID: <3AAC812D.94355FFD@i-clue.de> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 08:56:29 +0100 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: so@server.i-clue.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [de] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brian Wolter Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2nd HDD problem References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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