Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 00:07:37 -0700 From: darren david <darren@3x3x3.org> To: David Kirchner <dpk@dpk.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fsck woes: no '-b' option? Message-ID: <4355F0B9.1010809@3x3x3.org> In-Reply-To: <35c231bf0510182350m61574d87je3f2e2fc8c7b6e3a@mail.gmail.com> References: <4355E688.8050401@3x3x3.org> <35c231bf0510182350m61574d87je3f2e2fc8c7b6e3a@mail.gmail.com>
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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 <darren@3x3x3.org> 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! >
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