Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 08:18:48 +0000 From: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de> To: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BAD SUPER BLOCK Message-ID: <3B8B53E8.6E5C5597@pukruppa.de> References: <XFMail.010828075212.mj@isy.liu.se>
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Micke Josefsson wrote: > > 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) (in the meantime I used my fixit-floppy to uncomment /dev/ad0s2e in /etc/fstab and to make some important /var-directories manually to be able to boot into multi-user mode again. But of course I still would like to restore my /var-partition) I tried fsck -b 32 /dev/ad0s2e but I get an illegal option --b and I did not find anything equivalent in # man fsck By the way: I run FreeBSD -CURRENT . Are there any more ideas out there? Thanks for your answers! Uli. -- *--------------------------------------* | www.pukruppa.de www.2000d.de | | Wuppertal - Germany | *--------------------------------------* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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