Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 20:43:33 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Dave <dmehler26@woh.rr.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: urgent, need to recover superblock! Message-ID: <43FD2F65.40908@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <015701c63828$7af60a70$0200a8c0@satellite> References: <015701c63828$7af60a70$0200a8c0@satellite>
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Dave wrote: > Hello, > Some urgency on this issue! I've got a 10 gb ide drive that has > critical data on one of it's > partitions /dev/ad1e. This drive was originally gmirrored in > another box it worked fine, it was the master drive. Now i've > installed this drive as a slave in another 6.0 box, and now it > shows up as ad1 with the partition i want being ad1e. I did a mount it > worked fine. So i knew the drive was working, i then unmounted the > partition, and tried to dump it to another drive. This didn't work, dump > got > an error about incorrect superblock. I then did a mount > -o ro /dev/ad1e /mnt and i'm getting an error "Incorrect > superblock" from mount. I then tried fsck /dev/ad1e and got the > same error msg. These partitions were formatted with ufs2 as their > filesystem. I then ran bsdlabel ad1 and got a printout of my label, > this showed up which gives me hope that this data can be retrieved. > An error i'm getting from bsdlabel says that the c: partition does not > cover > the > entire disk and that may result in utilities not working correctly. Any > help appreciated. > Some urgency! > Dave. Sounds like you need to install ports/syutils/ffsrecov and spend some quality time with it tonight. Scott
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