Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 10:22:04 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Paul English <penglish@hydro.washington.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Incorrect super block on a disk Message-ID: <20030504005204.GK84427@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20030503164838.X10254-100000@dynamic.hydro.washington.edu> References: <20030503164838.X10254-100000@dynamic.hydro.washington.edu>
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--aqWxf8ydqYKP8htK Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday, 3 May 2003 at 16:57:57 -0700, Paul English wrote: > > Hi, > I have a disk that I sent out for data recovery. The recovery > place returned my data on another hard drive. I'm trying to mount the > relevant partition of said hard drive. When I do I get: > > mount: /dev/ad1s2e on /mnt: incorrect super block > > When I try to fsck, I get: > > INCORRECT SUPER BLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG > > it tries for an alternate superblock, fails and then I try doing > fsck -b 32 (as recommended in the manpages) and I get the same error. > > Is there anything I'm doing wrong or something else to try? It seems pretty certain that whatever they sent back from the data recovery house is not a UFS file system. You should try to find out how they got the data there. I can't imagine them creating a new file system. Until you know that, there's not much point trying alternatives, though some of them exist. > Can I somehow regenerate the super block? Regenerating super blocks is simple: that's what newfs(8) does. The trick is keeping your data. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers --aqWxf8ydqYKP8htK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+tGQ0IubykFB6QiMRAr1DAKCndcAN7wXUCNwHS3x4XvhK7/hYlQCeMR9v GJ4LmToK43JMIRbRRkg7nQA= =9ma8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --aqWxf8ydqYKP8htK--
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