SU+J hard recovery failure

[David Demelier]

Le jeudi 28 mars 2013 11:05:58 Daniel O'Connor a écrit :
> On 27/03/2013, at 18:43, David Demelier <demelier.david at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Yesterday I had a panic on my laptop. Unfortunately the SU+J was not
> > able to recovery the file system, the error was something like :
> > 
> > Unknown error: Help!
> > Could not find directory 9854215
> > 
> > And it went to the single user mode, I needed to fsck_ufs manually to
> > recover the disk. What afraid me is what if happens on a headless
> > machine? It will be hard to recover.
> 
> For headless remote systems I use fsck_y_enable="YES".
> 
> In my experience 'fsck -y' almost invariably recovers the disk to a point
> where it can boot and then I can login remotely.
> 

When the problem appeared, I could not use fsck -y because it will asks "Use 
journal?" and if journal is used the error above reappears and you can not 
clean the file system..

I needed to do a full fsck without any journal at all.

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Regards,

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David Demelier