Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 14:39:14 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Yusuf Goolamabbas <yusufg@outblaze.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Trying to understand this fsck error message Message-ID: <19990716143914.34860@mojave.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990715081824.20533.qmail@yusufg.portal2.com>; from Yusuf Goolamabbas on Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 08:18:24AM -0000 References: <19990715081824.20533.qmail@yusufg.portal2.com>
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[removing FreeBSD-scsi] On Thursday, 15 July 1999 at 8:18:24 -0000, Yusuf Goolamabbas wrote: > Hi, After a power failure whilst bringing up a machine I got the > following errors from fsck > > The following disk sectors could not be read 16 ,17,18,..., 31 > > /dev/rda1s1a not labelled as a BSD file system > > Is there any workaround for this or do I treat the disk as a lost cause Looks as if you have lost the beginning of your file system, possibly as the result of a hardware error. Try the alternate superblock at offset 32 (fsck -b 32). Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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