From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 24 09:31:26 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DF6216A417 for ; Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:31:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from greg@wholemeal.net) Received: from mail9.messagelabs.com (mail9.messagelabs.com [194.205.110.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7333643D46 for ; Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:30:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from greg@wholemeal.net) X-VirusChecked: Checked X-Env-Sender: greg@wholemeal.net X-Msg-Ref: server-17.tower-9.messagelabs.com!1164360683!23610816!1 X-StarScan-Version: 5.5.10.7; banners=-,-,- X-Originating-IP: [212.135.210.82] Received: (qmail 21413 invoked from network); 24 Nov 2006 09:31:23 -0000 Received: from dsl-212-135-210-82.dsl.easynet.co.uk (HELO warprecords.com) (212.135.210.82) by server-17.tower-9.messagelabs.com with SMTP; 24 Nov 2006 09:31:23 -0000 Received: from [192.168.100.40] (HELO [192.168.0.10]) by warprecords.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.10) with ESMTPS id 6989443 for freebsd-fs@freebsd.org; Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:31:23 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <69404A94-8EBC-4978-8EA6-32E3DB1FA6A6@wholemeal.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org From: Greg Eden Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:31:28 +0000 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) Subject: fsck crash: bad inode number to nextinode X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:31:26 -0000 Hello, I'm try to recover a RAID5 volume which was badly corrupted when a drive was removed during a rebuild. It contained about 1 TB of data and was formatted with default values under FreeBSD 6.0-R. I have used dd to image the drive onto another volume and am mounting it with mdconfig so I can work on that an not cause futher damage. However when I run fsck_ufs on the /dev/md0 partition it eventually crashes out during Phase 1 with UNKNOWN FILE TYPE I=42151497 UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY CLEAR? yes fsck_ufs: bad inode number 42158080 to nextinode Is it possible to work around this to get fsck to complete? It is possible to mount the partition and some of the data is there, however most of it is not. Thanks in advance for any help. I have previously posted to freebsd- questions without a response. Greg Eden.