From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 22 07:32:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA17400 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 07:32:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA17395 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 07:32:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id HAA24017; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 07:32:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 07:32:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: scott@statsci.com cc: Kristian Kennaway , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Corrupted disk slice In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 21 Apr 1997, Scott Blachowicz wrote: > > > Can't open /dev/rwd1s4e: Invalid argument > > > > > > And dumped me into single-user mode. Trying to mount the partition manually > > > gives: > > > > > > [morden] 0:33 ~ mount -t ufs /dev/wd1s4e /usr2 > > > > > > /dev/wd1s4e on /usr2: Incorrect super block. > > > > It's trying to mount a DOS logical disk in an extended partition. Make > > sure that /etc/fstab records this filesystem as a 'msdos' type FS. > > I thought the logical slices started with s5 (regardless of how many > non-logical slices are currentlly being used). Argh, I always forget, the slices are goofed up. They don't start at 0, they start at 1. :-( > Doing 'fdisk wd1' should show something similar to what 'fdisk wd0' > shows on my system: > > one:~% fdisk wd0 > ******* Working on device /dev/rwd0 ******* If Kristian could send us the output of this (and disklabel) then we could work from there. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major