From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 8 02:08:05 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 256A216A418 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2007 02:08:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from martster@gmail.com) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.248]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 378C313C48E for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2007 02:08:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from martster@gmail.com) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c24so350477ana for ; Wed, 07 Feb 2007 18:08:04 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=l0AKyVw3J64aj0WaIs34IholnAn7aK0ZR1hH5Isr6wm/3DF3fianuu48ycNj27pUgIiqobLeUM7UH7PtZYMTCNEYLoRwbyvHUW21dtCzhJlFFO7ZbT8lFLpsEF1VRH3M8H1fCP+DI3CjRY5J4do0Q5CkfmsHZsP42Fr+6jeklhY= Received: by 10.100.165.9 with SMTP id n9mr9177372ane.1170900483935; Wed, 07 Feb 2007 18:08:03 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.65.138.16 with HTTP; Wed, 7 Feb 2007 18:08:03 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <70063950702071808y74822ae3x816f51120ac291f4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 21:08:03 -0500 From: "Marty Landman" To: "Pieter de Goeje" In-Reply-To: <200702071403.08184.pieter@degoeje.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <70063950702061806s281130c4labc112a018c2a19e@mail.gmail.com> <200702071403.08184.pieter@degoeje.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Jerry McAllister , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recovery after power outage 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: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 02:08:06 -0000 On 2/7/07, Pieter de Goeje wrote: > > ad1s1c is a partition that contains the entire disk or slice in this case. > Dangerously dedicated is when you have no slices: ad1a, ad1b, ad1c etc. > You > should _only_ fsck the individual partitions (ad0s1a), never the complete > disk (ad0) or individual slices (ad0s1). You may risk destroying your > filesystem(s) if you do so. Unless ofcourse you know what you're doing and > you have placed a filesystem directly on either the disk or the slice it > self. I see, thanks for explaining that. If I can recover this disk then I'll partition it into a couple of slices and mount each of those instead of what I was now doing. > /dev/ad1s1c: NOT LABELED AS A BSD FILE SYSTEM (unused) > Yes, ad1s1c is normally not used as a filesystem, so you would better not > fsck > it. Oops, then what can I do? > Also it won't reboot now, although I've run fsck complete including on > > ads0. Do I have to edit /etc/fstab so ads1 isn't mounted to get a good > > boot? Unfortunately /usr isn't getting mounted and I have not editor > > available afaik. > It should not be necessary to edit /etc/fstab. However after what you've > described above it might be necessary to restore the partition table, mbr > and > slice table to get your system booting again. Could you please be more explicit Pieter? I don't know how to do any of that. Yikes! Marty