Filesystem panic - one hd inaccessable under 6-STABLE

[Eric Anderson]

Jochen Gensch wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I've encountered a very bad thing here. I was compiling openoffice, when the 
> system suddenly paniced and rebooted. When it was booting again it said:
> 
> Nov  4 19:53:15 incmc kernel: Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s3a
> Nov  4 19:53:15 incmc savecore: reboot after panic: ufs_dirbad: bad dir
> Nov  4 19:53:15 incmc savecore: writing core to vmcore.0
> 
> The bad news is, one harddisk, which was attached via firewire lost its 
> superblock and cannot be used any more. This is my backup drive :-(. A fsck 
> -t uds /device ends up with:
> 
> fsck -t ufs /dev/da0s1
> ** /dev/da0s1
> Cannot find file system superblock
> ioctl (GCINFO): Inappropriate ioctl for device
> fsck_ufs: /dev/da0s1: can't read disk label
> 
> both harddrives are running with ufs2 + softupdates
> 
> I'm scared :-(

try:

fsck -b 160 /dev/da0s1

Eric




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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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