From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 19 07:06:21 2005 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 7F01516A41F for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 07:06:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from darren@3x3x3.org) Received: from yak.fluid.com (yak.fluid.com [63.76.105.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F24E243D4C for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 07:06:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from darren@3x3x3.org) Received: from dsl092-017-115.sfo4.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.92.17.115]) by yak.fluid.com with esmtpsa (Exim 4.44 #1) id 1ES7xP-000498-Qt; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 00:01:51 -0700 Message-ID: <4355F0B9.1010809@3x3x3.org> Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 00:07:37 -0700 From: darren david User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Kirchner References: <4355E688.8050401@3x3x3.org> <35c231bf0510182350m61574d87je3f2e2fc8c7b6e3a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <35c231bf0510182350m61574d87je3f2e2fc8c7b6e3a@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fsck woes: no '-b' option? 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: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 07:06:21 -0000 fair enough, that seemed to get it working again. so now the question is... how does one go about selecting which block to use as a new superblock? i realize this may be a trivial question regarding filesystems ( it's over my head) so i will happily take a link to a comprehensive resource as a response, unless it really is an easy answer... thanks again, darren david David Kirchner wrote: > On 10/18/05, darren david wrote: > >>SEARCH FOR ALTERNATE SUPER-BLOCK FAILED. YOU MUST USE THE >>-b OPTION TO FSCK TO SPECIFY THE LOCATION OF AN ALTERNATE >>SUPER-BLOCK TO SUPPLY NEEDED INFORMATION; SEE fsck(8). >> >> >>---- >> >>this is all well and good, but according to 'man 8 fsck', there is no >>'-b' option. any thoughts on way around this? I'm running on 5.4-STABLE. > > > It looks like the fsck man page needs to be clarified, and the fsck > output needs to be modified. What is actually telling you to use -b is > "fsck_ffs". > > !DSPAM:4355ecc0544949158843437! >