"Cannot find file system superblock" error - how to recover?

Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko doublef at tele-kom.ru
Tue Jan 6 09:35:50 PST 2004


On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 09:12:22 -0800 (PST)
"Scott I. Remick" <scott at sremick.net> probably wrote:

> 
> --- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko <doublef at tele-kom.ru> 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 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
> partition:
> 
> su-2.05b# bsdlabel /dev/ad4s1
> # /dev/ad4s1:
> 8 partitions:
> #        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
>   a:  1024000        0    4.2BSD     2048 16384 64008
>   b:  2097152  1024000      swap
>   c: 40131441        0    unused        0     0         # "raw" part, don't
> edit
>   d:   524288  3121152    4.2BSD     2048 16384 32776
>   e:  1024000  3645440    4.2BSD     2048 16384 64008
>   f: 35462001  4669440    4.2BSD     2048 16384 28552
> 
> su-2.05b# bsdlabel /dev/ad4s1c
> # /dev/ad4s1c:
> 8 partitions:
> #        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
>   a:  1024000       63    4.2BSD     2048 16384 64008
>   b:  2097152  1024063      swap
>   c: 40131441       63    unused        0     0         # "raw" part, don't
> edit
>   d:   524288  3121215    4.2BSD     2048 16384 32776
>   e:  1024000  3645503    4.2BSD     2048 16384 64008
>   f: 35462001  4669503    4.2BSD     2048 16384 28552
> partition c: partition extends past end of unit
> bsdlabel: partition c doesn't start at 0!
> bsdlabel: An incorrect partition c may cause problems for standard system
> utilities
> partition f: partition extends past end of unit
> 
> The plot thickens...
> 

With `c', they're all offset by 63(why?). But still, you can mount the
partitions on the ad4s1, so the disklabel should be ok...

-- 
DoubleF
Is your job running?  You'd better go catch it!
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