Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2006-05-11 Thread shepherd
Did you manage to solve the problem with the subject? Just ha an almost similar problem and badly need your help?? The filesytem is ext3 and have done almost everything. Regards, Shepherd ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2004-02-19 Thread Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.8claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.8) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 12:31:55 -0800 (PST) Scott I. Remick [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote: ---

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2004-02-19 Thread Scott I. Remick
--- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try $ hd /dev/...| grep -A 5 02 00 00 00 0c 00 04 01 2e 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 Well that definitely produced something: bash-2.05b# hd /dev/ad2s1e | grep -A 5 02 00 00 00 0c 00 04 01 2e 00 00 00 02 00 00 002d 02 00 00 00 0c 00

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2004-02-19 Thread Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 06:42:22 -0800 (PST) Scott I. Remick [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote: --- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try $ hd /dev/...| grep -A 5 02 00 00 00 0c 00 04 01 2e 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 Well that definitely produced something: bash-2.05b#

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2004-02-18 Thread Scott I. Remick
--- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here you should have answered `y' (it doesn't ask you to change anything yet). Let's try that again, shall we? Sorry, ok I went through it again, saying Y to all the Continue? prompts but N to all the ones that talked about changing

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2004-02-04 Thread Scott I. Remick
--- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, you were recovering an 80G disk, and now you say the 80G has 4.9 on it. Did you erase anything? Is this a remote machine? No, it was not the drive that had the OS on it. It was originally mounted as /data on a system that had

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2004-02-04 Thread Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 23:05:05 -0800 (PST) Scott I. Remick [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote: --- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, you were recovering an 80G disk, and now you say the 80G has 4.9 on it. Did you erase anything? Is this a remote machine? No, it was

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2004-02-04 Thread Scott I. Remick
--- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, as it's UFS1 as we've figured out, the next logical thing would be to try mounting /dev/ad2s1c r/o, and if that fails, try fscking it. bash-2.05b# mount -r /dev/ad2s1c /data mount: /dev/ad2s1c on /data: incorrect super block

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2004-02-04 Thread Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 06:06:06 -0800 (PST) Scott I. Remick [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote: --- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, as it's UFS1 as we've figured out, the next logical thing would be to try mounting /dev/ad2s1c r/o, and if that fails, try fscking it.

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2004-02-04 Thread Scott I. Remick
--- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And /dev/ad2s1e? bash-2.05b# mount -r /dev/ad2s1e /data mount: /dev/ad2s1e on /data: incorrect super block bash-2.05b# fsck /dev/ad2s1e ** /dev/ad2s1e BAD SUPER BLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG LOOK FOR ALTERNATE SUPERBLOCKS? [yn] y USING

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2004-02-04 Thread Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 06:37:11 -0800 (PST) Scott I. Remick [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote: --- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And /dev/ad2s1e? bash-2.05b# mount -r /dev/ad2s1e /data mount: /dev/ad2s1e on /data: incorrect super block bash-2.05b# fsck /dev/ad2s1e **

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2004-02-04 Thread Scott I. Remick
--- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try using fsck -n (answer `no'), and recording what else comes up. That won't work, because it answers no to the first question of looking for alternate superblocks, then aborts immediately. So I'm just going to manually say no to all

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2004-02-04 Thread Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 08:26:47 -0800 (PST) Scott I. Remick [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote: --- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try using fsck -n (answer `no'), and recording what else comes up. That won't work, because it answers no to the first question of looking

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2004-02-03 Thread Scott I. Remick
Hello, gentlemen. For those of you still interested in this little adventure, I now have the 80GB drive mounted on the 2nd IDE controller in its own dedicated FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE system. ad0: 19092MB WDC WD200BB-75AUA1 [38792/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100 ad2: 76345MB MAXTOR 6L080J4

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2004-02-03 Thread Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 16:05:26 -0800 (PST) Scott I. Remick [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote: Hello, gentlemen. For those of you still interested in this little adventure, I now have the 80GB drive mounted on the 2nd IDE controller in its own dedicated FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE system. ad0: 19092MB

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2004-01-12 Thread Scott I. Remick
--- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I mean trying to mount it, to fsck it, using dd|hd to find the superblock, etc. I just want to be *really* sure we know what we are doing. Well, I don't have experience making bootable FreeBSD floppies... it might be more useful for me

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2004-01-06 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 15:05, Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko wrote: On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 13:29:26 +1030 Malcolm Kay [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote: On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 10:59, Scott I. Remick wrote: Sorry for the delay... holidays had me busy. Me too:) Hopefully you're still around and

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2004-01-06 Thread Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 19:43:44 +1030 Malcolm Kay [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote: On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 15:05, Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko wrote: On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 13:29:26 +1030 Malcolm Kay [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote: On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 10:59, Scott I. Remick wrote: Sorry for

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2004-01-06 Thread Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 19:57:09 +1030 Malcolm Kay [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote: On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 15:38, Scott I. Remick wrote: --- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder whether editing the label and setting both offsets to 0 might solve the problem. It

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2004-01-06 Thread Scott I. Remick
--- Malcolm Kay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Beware; if you write a disklabel (or presumably bsdlabel; I have no experience with 5.x) to ad6 you create a dangerously dedicated disk, i.e. a disk without slices. Ok. I am not saying that's what I want to do, I only mentioned it because the man

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2004-01-06 Thread Scott I. Remick
--- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And maybe prefix that by a $ bsdlabel -R /dev/ad6s1c dislabel.ad6s1c.new which would just check your new layout for errors, without writing anything, and print your file out as disklabel understands it. So you're saying, run it as

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2004-01-06 Thread Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 06:31:08 -0800 (PST) Scott I. Remick [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote: --- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And maybe prefix that by a $ bsdlabel -R /dev/ad6s1c dislabel.ad6s1c.new Sorry that was to be $ bsdlabel -R -n /dev/ad6s1c

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2004-01-06 Thread Scott I. Remick
--- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry that was to be $ bsdlabel -R -n /dev/ad6s1c dislabel.ad6s1c.new :( No worries... I figured it out :) Indeed it's not like in 4.x, where they were the same. And what about # ls -l /dev/ad6s1a /dev/ad6s1b (these minor numbers

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2004-01-06 Thread Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 08:32:31 -0800 (PST) Scott I. Remick [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote: I'm in the process of downloading the floppies... --- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry that was to be $ bsdlabel -R -n /dev/ad6s1c dislabel.ad6s1c.new :( No worries... I

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2004-01-06 Thread Scott I. Remick
--- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm in the process of downloading the floppies... ok cool And what about ad4? Does disklabel show different values for the slice and the `c' partition? Hmm not only are they different as w/ ad6, but I get the same error on the c

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2004-01-06 Thread Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 09:12:22 -0800 (PST) Scott I. Remick [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote: --- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm in the process of downloading the floppies... ok cool I can't find a zero-bad floppy in this place! It's all the holidays! And what

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2004-01-06 Thread Scott I. Remick
--- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't find a zero-bad floppy in this place! It's all the holidays! That's what AOL disks (vs. discs) used to be good for. :) With `c', they're all offset by 63(why?). But still, you can mount the partitions on the ad4s1, so the

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2004-01-06 Thread Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 09:48:40 -0800 (PST) Scott I. Remick [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote: --- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't find a zero-bad floppy in this place! It's all the holidays! That's what AOL disks (vs. discs) used to be good for. :) With

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2004-01-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
--- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't find a zero-bad floppy in this place! It's all the holidays! That's what AOL disks (vs. discs) used to be good for. :) With `c', they're all offset by 63(why?). But still, you can mount the partitions on the ad4s1,

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2004-01-06 Thread Scott I. Remick
--- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you already have a copy (the data at offset 32 seems to be it). If you want, do a # dd if=/dev/ad6s1 skip=16 count=16 of=/some/file ok, done. Is there a way to use fsck_ufs -b now to fix this? Or is that premature? And if I

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2004-01-06 Thread Scott I. Remick
--- Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (is disklabel/bsdlabel only meant to be run on slices and not bsd-partitions?). You have it backwards in this question. Disklabel is meant to run only on bsd partitions and not slices. Slices (1-4) are the major divisions of the disk

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2004-01-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
--- Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (is disklabel/bsdlabel only meant to be run on slices and not bsd-partitions?). You have it backwards in this question. Disklabel is meant to run only on bsd partitions and not slices. Slices (1-4) are the major divisions of

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2004-01-06 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 06:09, Scott I. Remick wrote: --- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you already have a copy (the data at offset 32 seems to be it). If you want, do a # dd if=/dev/ad6s1 skip=16 count=16 of=/some/file ok, done. Is there a way to use fsck_ufs

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2004-01-06 Thread Scott I. Remick
--- Malcolm Kay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is true. That partition is labeled as unused. I believe you should be trying to mount /dev/ad6s1e. su-2.05b# mount -r /dev/ad6s1e /data mount: /dev/ad6s1e on /data: incorrect super block #/dev/ad6s1c/data ufs rw

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2004-01-06 Thread Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 15:17:29 -0500 (EST) Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote: --- Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (is disklabel/bsdlabel only meant to be run on slices and not bsd-partitions?). You have it backwards in this question. Disklabel is

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2004-01-06 Thread Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 11:39:57 -0800 (PST) Scott I. Remick [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote: --- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you already have a copy (the data at offset 32 seems to be it). If you want, do a # dd if=/dev/ad6s1 skip=16 count=16

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2004-01-05 Thread Scott I. Remick
Sorry for the delay... holidays had me busy. Hopefully you're still around and interested in picking up where we left off. I think we're definitely onto something... --- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: su-2.05b# hd /dev/ad6s1 | grep 54 19 01 00 1620 54 19 01 00 74

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2004-01-05 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 10:59, Scott I. Remick wrote: Sorry for the delay... holidays had me busy. Hopefully you're still around and interested in picking up where we left off. I think we're definitely onto something... Looking back over some of your e-mails I find: QUOTE su-2.05b# disklabel -r

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2004-01-05 Thread Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 13:29:26 +1030 Malcolm Kay [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote: On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 10:59, Scott I. Remick wrote: Sorry for the delay... holidays had me busy. Me too:) Hopefully you're still around and interested in picking up where we left off. I think we're definitely

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2004-01-05 Thread Scott I. Remick
--- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder whether editing the label and setting both offsets to 0 might solve the problem. It definitely seems like that, as the actual offset of the partition is 0, as dd shows. Ok, sounds like a plan. Not that I know what I'm

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2003-12-09 Thread Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 21:52:54 -0800 (PST) Scott I. Remick [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote: --- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder what did destroy it. Of course, system crashes can do wonders, but... Well, I was trying to save a file to that drive when my

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2003-12-08 Thread Scott I. Remick
--- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder what did destroy it. Of course, system crashes can do wonders, but... Well, I was trying to save a file to that drive when my system spontaneously rebooted for no apparent reason. In fact, there should be a way, because a

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2003-12-05 Thread Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 21:07:20 -0800 (PST) Scott I. Remick [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote: --- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a (probably bad) idea. If you say that the partition was mounted as /data, then you could do a # hd /dev/ad6s1 |grep /data

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2003-12-04 Thread Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 06:17:40 -0800 (PST) Scott I. Remick [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote: --- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [so you want the list cc'd. good...] Oh yes there are... what's surprising? If you are sure that the problem is with the superblock, pick any

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2003-12-04 Thread Scott I. Remick
--- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh yes there are... what's surprising? If you are sure that the problem is with the superblock, pick any you wish. The actual number of superblock copies depends on the disk size and the parameters you give to newfs. [...] It's

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2003-12-04 Thread Scott I. Remick
--- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want to be more sure, try dd'ing your (suspectedly damaged) superblock and some of its (suspectedly OK) copies into different files: # dd if=/dev/ad6s1e skip=... bs=512 count=16 of=somefile As /usr/src/sys/ufs/ffs/fs.h

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2003-12-04 Thread Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 08:24:16 -0800 (PST) Scott I. Remick [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote: --- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want to be more sure, try dd'ing your (suspectedly damaged) superblock and some of its (suspectedly OK) copies into different files:

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2003-12-04 Thread Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 08:24:16 -0800 (PST) Scott I. Remick [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote: --- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want to be more sure, try dd'ing your (suspectedly damaged) superblock and some of its (suspectedly OK) copies into different files:

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2003-12-04 Thread Scott I. Remick
--- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a (probably bad) idea. If you say that the partition was mounted as /data, then you could do a # hd /dev/ad6s1 |grep /data It should come up soon (the superblock should be close to the beginning of the drive, right?).

Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2003-12-03 Thread Scott I. Remick
Running 5.1-REL on a system w/ 2 drives. Was saving a file to 2nd drive (mounts as /data) and system suddenly froze then rebooted. Never good. Fsck barfed on startup telling me I had to run it manually. The error I'm stuck with is: /dev/ad6s1c Cannot find file system superblock /dev/ad6s1c: NOT

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2003-12-03 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 00:06:12 -0800 (PST) Scott I. Remick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Running 5.1-REL on a system w/ 2 drives. Was saving a file to 2nd drive (mounts as /data) and system suddenly froze then rebooted. Never good. Fsck barfed on startup telling me I had to run it manually. The error

Re: Cannot find file system superblock error - how to recover?

2003-12-03 Thread Scott I. Remick
--- Ion-Mihai Tetcu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FSCK_FFS(8) NAME fsck_ffs, fsck_ufs -- file system consistency check and interactive repair SYNOPSIS fsck_ffs [-BFpfny] [-b block#] [-c level] [-m mode] filesystem ... -b Use the block specified immediately after the