From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 21 02:12:08 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 E248716A400 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 02:12:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xmisoy@gmail.com) Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C3ED43D48 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 02:12:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xmisoy@gmail.com) Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id h29so901218wxd for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2006 18:12:06 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=Rbh9qwiuBeW4mue6fy2G9MuYD19IPmnSK9w/NwgSdthxXxilPkGO/vSDPXclPEUBZ/PwrVh2Fb9F58hlGrWh0xxbp/B8K3bz8ohDs+rB1MxfZvKTrWlPt4kZqnDLIwBgsCzltSRpo5OBvedr+LcJYblI2DDJ44lWI689481IylQ= Received: by 10.70.70.1 with SMTP id s1mr6385041wxa; Mon, 20 Mar 2006 18:12:06 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.54.7 with HTTP; Mon, 20 Mar 2006 18:12:06 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <36f5bbba0603201812l272cf9b7n1ae8fc06e0949970@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 18:12:06 -0800 From: "Edwin D. Vinas" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: hard error reading: set fstab mounts to frw: can no longer access filesystem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 02:12:08 -0000 Hi, After a power outage my FreeBSD-4.10 server's 40GB HDD had many fragmentations and no matter how I repeatedly do "fsck", the errors saying "hard error reading fsbn" are still there. I tried doing fsck over and over but it seems this is already a hardware error and can no longer be corrected. So my goal now is to recover my files! First, I did a "mount -a" and was able to copy some of important files but = I have more data which I need to backup which I thought would only be possibl= e if I can make the server boot and make it work at least with TCP/IP so I ca= n transfer data to the other PCs in the LAN. But, after "mount -a", I edited the fstab to set mounts to "frw" to force mount all drives and not give me those "hard error reading fsbn". So, I rebooted the machine, only to find out that after it mounted all partitions the the "/usr/libexec/getty" something can't be found or executed for ttys and its giving me unending errors. And there it goes, I can no longer access my filesystem because it hangs or doesn't have a terminal when the machine is about to finish booting. There is no prompt anymore, all I can see are the getty errors. If only I can edit fstab back without "f" option, I can still manually copy my files to a USB. Is there anyway to still recover my files? Is there a way I can edit fstab to remove "f" option so I can't have those getty errors? Or is it possible to mount the server's HDD in another FreeBSD machine? Thanks. Ed