On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 07:30:54PM +0200, Victor Lundwall wrote:
> Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> > I replaced a disk that had trouble with fsck in a 5.3 system and connected
> > it
> > to a 5.2.1 system for further examinaton.
> >
> > starting fsck /dev/ad3 gave me an error: could not determine file system
> > type.
> >
> > Had there been some change in FS right between FreeBSD 5.2 and 5.3 such that
> > either systems couldn't recognize each others FSs?
>
> Don't you haft to have a specific partition and slice? So it should be
> something like fsck_ufs /dev/ad3s1a? Else way try
> fsck_ufs /dev/ad3.
I think I tried fsck -t UFS /dev/ad3 already (not sure though, will be in
the office later in the afternoon and try then). I believe you can also do a
newfs /dev/ad1
instead of
newfs /dev/ad1s1
which may result in a different disk layout. I'm also not sure about that.
--
Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku_at_kukulies.org
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