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Date:      Sat, 25 Sep 1999 09:26:38 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        "Scott B. Corey" <sbcorey@azstarnet.com>
Cc:        "Oleg L. Tortseff" <skiller@dmitrov.ru>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problem with repearing damaged filesystem!
Message-ID:  <19990925092638.Z54407@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <99092409182802.02376@dialup17ip116>; from Scott B. Corey on Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 09:02:50AM -0700
References:  <199909240823.MAA71704@dmitrov.ru> <99092409182802.02376@dialup17ip116>

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On Friday, 24 September 1999 at  9:02:50 -0700, Scott B. Corey wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Oleg L. Tortseff wrote:
>> Hello, people!
>>
>>    I have an HDD and %subj%.   :(
>>
>> When i'm tryin' do something like 'disklabel -r wd3' system is sayin' to me:
>> 'disklabel: /dev/rwd3c: Undefined error: 0'
>> Same message I see when i'm launching disklabel with other options.  :(
>>
>> What do I need to do to repear filesystems on HDD in this case?   All data on it
>> is present and readable with DiskEditor (from Norton Utilities packet), but
>> filesystems are fragmented and many files on it are in pieces...
>
> Read man fsck
> Download fixit.flp from the floppies directory at ftp.ru.freebsd.org or if you
> have the CD, it is in  /cdrom/floppies
> Make a fixit floppy:
> run fsck on /dev/wd3c

This is not correct.  You run fsck against the individual file
systems, not the c partition, which represents the entire disk.
Oleg's error message indicates that the file label is so messed up
that he can't even read it.  This is bad stuff.

Greg
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