Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 23:51:19 -0600 From: Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: "Juha Saarinen" <juha@saarinen.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disk recovery pointers, please Message-ID: <200107060551.f665pJj17669@fedde.littleton.co.us> In-Reply-To: <036c01c105ce$7d0f96a0$0a01a8c0@den2>
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On Fri, 6 Jul 2001 15:48:16 +1200 "Juha Saarinen" wrote: +------------------ | Trying to sort out a server that upon rebooting comes up with: | | /dev/da1s1d: CANNOT READ: BLK 16 | /dev/da1s1d: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY | ... | THE FOLLOWING FILE SYSTEMS HAD AN UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY: | | /dev/da1s1d (/data) | | Automatic file system check failed . . . help! | | So, I run fsck manually, and get: | | CANNOT READ BLK 16 | CONTINUE [yn] | | If I answer 'y' to that, I get: | | THE FOLLOWING DISK SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ: | | 16, 17, 18 (all the way to 31). | | /dev/da1s1d: NOT LABELED AS A BSD FILE SYSTEM (unused). | | Couldn't find anything useful in the archives or on the Web apart from | "reformat"... :-( | +------------------ You can try to get fsck to succeed by using an alternate super block. Get a list of superblocks on the drive using newfs -N /dev/da1s1d. then feed one of these into fsck -yb /dev/da1s1d If this succeeds count your self lucky. If it fails it is time to reformat the drive and start recovering your backups. You do have a backup don't you? Good Luck -- Chris Fedde To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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