From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 27 18:50:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-94-248-46.mmcable.com [24.94.248.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 38ECC37B403 for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 18:50:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 53395 invoked by uid 100); 28 Aug 2001 01:50:52 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15242.63740.801571.646765@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 20:50:52 -0500 To: "Peter Ulrich (Uli) Kruppa" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BAD SUPER BLOCK In-Reply-To: <114771333@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Peter Ulrich (Uli) Kruppa types: > Hi all, > > I only can boot into single-user mode because of an "UNEXPECTED > INCONSISTENCY" of my /var partition. > > # fsck /dev/ad0s2e > (that is my /var ) delivers > > BAD SUPER BLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG > /dev/ados2e: INCOMPLETE LABEL: type 4.2BSD fsize 0; frag 0, cpg 0 > , size 409600 > What can I do? Try the alternate superblocks, starting with: fsck -b 32 /dev/ad0s2e. The position of other alternates will depend on the file system. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message