could not determine fs type - fsck

[Victor Lundwall]

Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> I replaced a disk that had trouble with fsck in a 5.3 system and connected it
> to a 5.2.1 system for further examinaton.
> 
> starting fsck /dev/ad3 gave me an error: could not determine file system type.
> 
> Had there been some change in FS right between FreeBSD 5.2 and 5.3 such that
> either systems couldn't recognize each others FSs?
> --
> Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku_at_kukulies.org
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Don't you haft to have a specific partition and slice? So it should be
something like fsck_ufs /dev/ad3s1a? Else way try
fsck_ufs /dev/ad3.