From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 27 22:52:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from isy.liu.se (isy.liu.se [130.236.48.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82CC937B407 for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 22:52:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mj@isy.liu.se) Received: from lagrange.isy.liu.se (lagrange.isy.liu.se [130.236.49.127]) by isy.liu.se (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f7S5qAh21348; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 07:52:10 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 07:52:12 +0200 (CEST) From: Micke Josefsson To: "Peter Ulrich (Uli) Kruppa" Subject: RE: BAD SUPER BLOCK Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG 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 On 27-Aug-01 Peter Ulrich (Uli) Kruppa wrote: > 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? > Thanks for your answers. I think this the time to use one of the extra superblocks on the disk. Try fsck -b 32 /dev/ad0s2e (to be honest I have never tried it myself, but that is what I'd have a go at if I were you) /Micke ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 4.4-RC ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message