Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 16:14:41 -0400 From: "Richard E. Hawkins Esq." <hawk@smith.ansci.iastate.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Desparate: recovering file system after linux probed it. Message-ID: <m114sq2-003Nv9C@smith.ansci.iastate.edu>
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I got the bright idea to use a few free minutes to put the hard drives from my kids' machine into mine to try to fix them with disklabel (another long story). The MBR has been fouled up by an old gateway machine. Unfortunately, the odd behavior of those drives damaged lilo, which was still the bootloader on this machine. Borrowing a floppy drive, I then tried to load the old tiny emergency debian installation so that I could rewrite lilo. Bad move. It tried to mount some of my partitions as ext2. Only / survived, and I really only care about home. Particularly, about 1 directory on home, my dissertation and its graphical files. The most recent electronic backup is (we believe) 2 to 3 weeks old. When linux does this, it does something to the superblock. I get messages from fsck such as: BAD SUPERBLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONGioctl (GCNIFO): invalid argument fsck: /dev/rwd0s6: can't read disk label How do I recover my data? rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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