need help

[Michael S]

Thanks a lot everyone. As suggested by Ceri Davies, I fscked using
block 160. Now I am was able to boot into single user mode, fscking my
other partitions.

Thanks again to everyone for their help.

On 3/17/06, Ceri Davies <ceri at submonkey.net> wrote:
> On 17/3/06 12:30, "Michael S" <msherman77 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I've tried both. fsck_ffs /dev/ad0s1a also exits because of bad superblocks.
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> If you used the default parameters when creating the filesystem then
> "newfs -N /dev/ad0s1a" should tell you where the alternate superblocks are
> and you may be able to use one of them with fsck_ffs's -b option.
>
> Don't forget the -N to newfs whatever you do though.  If you're
> uncomfortable using that, then just try block 32 or 160.
>
> Ceri
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