Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 10:18:17 +0200 From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@kukulies.org> To: Victor Lundwall <victor.lundwall@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@www.kukulies.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: could not determine fs type - fsck Message-ID: <20060509081817.GA32757@kukulies.org> In-Reply-To: <445F804E.9040809@gmail.com> References: <200605081557.k48FvOo4072890@www.kukulies.org> <445F804E.9040809@gmail.com>
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On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 07:30:54PM +0200, Victor Lundwall wrote: > Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > I replaced a disk that had trouble with fsck in a 5.3 system and connected it > > to a 5.2.1 system for further examinaton. > > > > starting fsck /dev/ad3 gave me an error: could not determine file system type. > > > > Had there been some change in FS right between FreeBSD 5.2 and 5.3 such that > > either systems couldn't recognize each others FSs? > > Don't you haft to have a specific partition and slice? So it should be > something like fsck_ufs /dev/ad3s1a? Else way try > fsck_ufs /dev/ad3. I think I tried fsck -t UFS /dev/ad3 already (not sure though, will be in the office later in the afternoon and try then). I believe you can also do a newfs /dev/ad1 instead of newfs /dev/ad1s1 which may result in a different disk layout. I'm also not sure about that. -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku_at_kukulies.org
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