bad superblock question
I had an ide cable go bad, the harddrive was unable to mount. I have since replaced the ide cable. when I fsck I use the alternative superblock at 32 I believe. How do I copy the alternative to the non-existant main? -Darren __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bad superblock question
I know, however it isn't fixing the first sector, it uses the backup(already repaired it), and never at any point does it fix the original. As a result, I can't mount it and get it to boot up.. my /var is on this drive. and is rather important. repeatedly running fsck, it just asks to use the backup at sector 32. I can't seem to find any other software to replace it or edit it. I've read a fair amount of man pages now. -Darren --- Mike Jeays [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 14:29, Mr. Darren wrote: I had an ide cable go bad, the harddrive was unable to mount. I have since replaced the ide cable. when I fsck I use the alternative superblock at 32 I believe. How do I copy the alternative to the non-existant main? -Darren __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think fsck does this automatically - you may have to reply y at the right place. __ Start your day with Yahoo! - Make it your home page! http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bad superblock question
On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Mr. Darren wrote: I know, however it isn't fixing the first sector, it uses the backup(already repaired it), and never at any point does it fix the original. As a result, I can't mount it and get it to boot up.. my /var is on this drive. and is rather important. repeatedly running fsck, it just asks to use the backup at sector 32. I can't seem to find any other software to replace it or edit it. I've read a fair amount of man pages now. If you have another disk to boot from, try mounting your old /var read-only. At least then you could get your data off it. HTH. --- Mike Jeays [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 14:29, Mr. Darren wrote: I had an ide cable go bad, the harddrive was unable to mount. I have since replaced the ide cable. when I fsck I use the alternative superblock at 32 I believe. How do I copy the alternative to the non-existant main? I think fsck does this automatically - you may have to reply y at the right place. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bad superblock question
It would be nice if I could do that, it only says bad super block. Because there currently is no super block at the begining of the drive. The rest of the drive seems intact because fsck can run off the superblock at sector 32 and finish's. At no point does it make a new superblock where I should have one. If anyone knows how to mount using sector 32.. that would be nice. -Darren --- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Mr. Darren wrote: I know, however it isn't fixing the first sector, it uses the backup(already repaired it), and never at any point does it fix the original. As a result, I can't mount it and get it to boot up.. my /var is on this drive. and is rather important. repeatedly running fsck, it just asks to use the backup at sector 32. I can't seem to find any other software to replace it or edit it. I've read a fair amount of man pages now. If you have another disk to boot from, try mounting your old /var read-only. At least then you could get your data off it. HTH. --- Mike Jeays [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 14:29, Mr. Darren wrote: I had an ide cable go bad, the harddrive was unable to mount. I have since replaced the ide cable. when I fsck I use the alternative superblock at 32 I believe. How do I copy the alternative to the non-existant main? I think fsck does this automatically - you may have to reply y at the right place. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] __ Yahoo! Music Unlimited Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
