fsck can't determine fstype

[Waitman Gobble]

On Jan 16, 2013 10:24 AM, "Robert Huff" <roberthuff at rcn.com> wrote:
>
>
>        Situation:
>        I have a hard drive which may or may not have died already,
> from which I would _very_ much like to recover maybe 1 gbyte of data.
>        After extracting it from the old machine, it's now hooked up to
> a system running:
>
> FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #0: Sun Dec 30 12:52:09 EST 2012 amd64
>
>       "gpart show" identifies it as "ad1" with partition 2 as type
> "freebsd-ufs" and label "g_user".
>           However:
>
> >> fsck /dev/ad1p2
> fsck: could not determine filesystem type
>
>       Adding " -t ufs " produces:
>
> huff@>> fsck -t ufs /ad1p2
> ** /dev/ad1p2
> ** Last Mounted on /usr
> ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes
> -2103374334359810 BAD I=342
> UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY
>
> -2103382924294404 BAD I=342
> UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY
>
> -2103391514228998 BAD I=342
> UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY
>
> -2103400104163592 BAD I=342
> UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY
>
> -2103408694098186 BAD I=342
> UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY
>
> -2103417284032780 BAD I=342
> UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY
>
> -2103425873967374 BAD I=342
> UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY
>
> -2103434463901968 BAD I=342
> UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY
>
> -2103443053836562 BAD I=342
> UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY
>
> -2103451643771156 BAD I=342
> UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY
>
> -2103460233705750 BAD I=342
> UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY
>
> EXCESSIVE BAD BLKS I=342
> CONTINUE? [yn] ^C
> ***** FILE SYSTEM STILL DIRTY *****
>
>
>       While I'm not an fs expert, this feels wrong.
>       Is there some clue I'm missing?
>
>       Respectfully,
>
>
>                         Robert Huff
>
> ________________________________________

hi,

you might try to force a read only mount, if the drive is clicking its
probably losing "tracking", I have had luck in the past putting it in a
ziplock and in the freezer for a good while. hope that helps.

Waitman Gobble
San Jose California


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