From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 28 16:36: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26C5F14DD4 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 16:35:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA20976; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 09:05:57 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id JAA50614; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 09:05:56 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 09:05:56 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Glenn Johnson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: recovering a vinum volume Message-ID: <19990629090556.Z43194@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990628083834.A76142@symbion.srrc.usda.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <19990628083834.A76142@symbion.srrc.usda.gov>; from Glenn Johnson on Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 08:38:34AM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 28 June 1999 at 8:38:34 -0500, Glenn Johnson wrote: > I was doing a 'make world' last night when my system suddenly died > with IO errors. I had no choice but to reboot but I cannot mount my > vinum volume. The message is that the volume cannot be mounted because > the filesystem is not marked clean. However, fsck fails because the > filesystem is not recognized as a unix file system. Is there any way to > recover this volume? Probably not. It looks as if the data has been completely obliterated. > Here are details of my setup: > > FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE, as of about June 20, 1999. I have /, /var, and /usr > on a 400MB slice of a 1.6GB IDE drive so I can boot the base OS. I have > a vinum partition consisting of the remainder of the IDE disk and a 4GB > SCSI disk. This is where I have /usr/local, /usr/home, and /usr/X11R6. > > This setup has worked great for the past several months and has gotten > through several 'make worlds'. As of now I am not sure what caused the > errors, there were no power problems at the time. Any help greatly > appreciated. This is probably not a Vinum problem. I'd be more inclined to think that your I/O errors are to blame. How do you start Vinum? What does 'vinum list' say? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message