From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Apr 2 19:58:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from home.offwhite.net (home.offwhite.net [156.46.35.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4422037B651 for ; Sun, 2 Apr 2000 19:58:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brennan@offwhite.net) Received: from localhost (brennan@localhost) by home.offwhite.net (8.9.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA04015 for ; Sun, 2 Apr 2000 21:58:55 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 21:58:55 -0500 (CDT) From: Brennan W Stehling To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: repairing bad build Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ok, now that i have messed up my box severely i need help in starting over. the most important thing is getting my secondary drive back. it does not contain any system files, but the superblock info is messed up. i have always been able to use fsck to repair the filesystems (mostly with solaris actually) but this time i am stuck. it says the superblock magic number cannot be found and the alternate is not working either. does anyone know of a way to restore the filesystem? as for the primary drive, i can pull my etc backups off it and start over. that is not a problem. i will likely get a cd from walnut creek and doa clean install. that is the surest bet. Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin projects: www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com fortune: "For an adequate time call 555-3321" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message