bad superblock question

Mr. Darren darren780 at yahoo.com
Sun Oct 9 21:31:34 PDT 2005


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 <chris at monochrome.org> 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 <Mike.Jeays at rogers.com> 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               chris at monochrome.org
> **                     [ Busy Expunging <|> ]
> 



		
__________________________________ 
Yahoo! Music Unlimited 
Access over 1 million songs. Try it free.
http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited/


More information about the freebsd-questions mailing list