From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 16 18:24:37 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A6CE1DC for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 18:24:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roberthuff@rcn.com) Received: from smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net (smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net [207.172.157.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57A32CE for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 18:24:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mr16.lnh.mail.rcn.net ([207.172.157.36]) by smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net with ESMTP; 16 Jan 2013 13:24:37 -0500 Received: from smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net (smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.11]) by mr16.lnh.mail.rcn.net (MOS 4.3.4-GA) with ESMTP id CEQ38408; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:24:36 -0500 X-Auth-ID: roberthuff@rcn.com Received: from 209-6-84-183.c3-0.smr-ubr2.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com (HELO jerusalem.litteratus.org) ([209.6.84.183]) by smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net with ESMTP; 16 Jan 2013 13:24:36 -0500 From: Robert Huff MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <20726.61534.560876.700561@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:24:30 -0500 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: fsck can't determine fstype X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.4 (patch 22) "Instant Classic" XEmacs Lucid X-Junkmail-Whitelist: YES (by domain whitelist at mr16.lnh.mail.rcn.net) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 18:24:37 -0000 Situation: I have a hard drive which may or may not have died already, from which I would _very_ much like to recover maybe 1 gbyte of data. After extracting it from the old machine, it's now hooked up to a system running: FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #0: Sun Dec 30 12:52:09 EST 2012 amd64 "gpart show" identifies it as "ad1" with partition 2 as type "freebsd-ufs" and label "g_user". However: >> fsck /dev/ad1p2 fsck: could not determine filesystem type Adding " -t ufs " produces: huff@>> fsck -t ufs /ad1p2 ** /dev/ad1p2 ** Last Mounted on /usr ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes -2103374334359810 BAD I=342 UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY -2103382924294404 BAD I=342 UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY -2103391514228998 BAD I=342 UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY -2103400104163592 BAD I=342 UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY -2103408694098186 BAD I=342 UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY -2103417284032780 BAD I=342 UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY -2103425873967374 BAD I=342 UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY -2103434463901968 BAD I=342 UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY -2103443053836562 BAD I=342 UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY -2103451643771156 BAD I=342 UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY -2103460233705750 BAD I=342 UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY EXCESSIVE BAD BLKS I=342 CONTINUE? [yn] ^C ***** FILE SYSTEM STILL DIRTY ***** While I'm not an fs expert, this feels wrong. Is there some clue I'm missing? Respectfully, Robert Huff