From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 19 06:42:22 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4D8916A4CE for ; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 06:42:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from web41111.mail.yahoo.com (web41111.mail.yahoo.com [66.218.93.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A725A43D1F for ; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 06:42:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scott@sremick.net) Message-ID: <20040219144222.78195.qmail@web41111.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [199.172.45.60] by web41111.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 06:42:22 PST X-RocketYMMF: siremick Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 06:42:22 -0800 (PST) From: "Scott I. Remick" To: Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko In-Reply-To: <20040219151211.3c6d72ed@Hal.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: "Cannot find file system superblock" error - how to recover? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: scott@sremick.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 14:42:22 -0000 --- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko wrote: > Try > > $ hd /dev/...| grep -A 5 "02 00 00 00 0c 00 04 01 2e 00 00 00 02 00 00 > 00" Well that definitely produced something: bash-2.05b# hd /dev/ad2s1e | grep -A 5 "02 00 00 00 0c 00 04 01 2e 00 00 00 02 00 00" 002d0000 02 00 00 00 0c 00 04 01 2e 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 |................| 002d0010 0c 00 04 02 2e 2a 00 00 00 a0 09 00 10 00 04 00 |.....*..........| 002d0020 70 69 63 73 00 10 6a c0 00 f8 40 00 14 00 04 08 |pics..j...@.....| 002d0030 6f 68 64 5b 6e 70 66 73 00 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 |ohd[npfs........| 002d0040 14 00 08 0a 58 42 38 32 43 6b 6e 62 69 63 00 d9 |....XB82Cknbic..| 002d0050 00 00 63 00 0c 00 04 03 65 70 63 00 00 58 63 00 |..c.....epc..Xc.| -- 002f4000 02 00 00 00 0c 00 04 01 2e 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 |................| 002f4010 0c 00 04 02 2e 2e 00 00 00 a0 09 00 10 00 04 04 |................| 002f4020 70 69 63 73 00 14 6a c4 00 f8 40 00 14 00 04 08 |pics..j...@.....| 002f4030 6f 6c 64 5f 6e 74 66 73 00 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 |old_ntfs........| 002f4040 14 00 08 0a 58 46 38 36 43 6f 6e 66 69 67 00 d9 |....XF86Config..| 002f4050 00 00 63 00 0c 00 04 03 65 74 63 00 00 58 63 00 |..c.....etc..Xc.| That second one seems to be more intact. "pics" and "old_ntfs" and "X" were directories off /data (there were others). The first match would appear to be slightly corrupted (that "etc" might have been a backup I made of /etc at some point in case of / failure). It's still churning away but I'm going to assume that it's found all it's going going to and send this email now. For what it's worth, FedEx is estimating Monday the 23rd as delivery of the spare 80GB.