From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 16 17:34:13 2003 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 E205337B401 for ; Sun, 16 Mar 2003 17:34:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 649A543FB1 for ; Sun, 16 Mar 2003 17:34:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 8065B51A58; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 12:04:08 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 12:04:08 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Brian McCann Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dirty shutdown and I'm now stuck Message-ID: <20030317013408.GH4895@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <000001c2ec20$50aa6c90$2f811581@garfield> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="y0Ed1hDcWxc3B7cn" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000001c2ec20$50aa6c90$2f811581@garfield> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --y0Ed1hDcWxc3B7cn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday, 16 March 2003 at 19:58:25 -0500, Brian McCann wrote: > Ok...I just had a system crash that I was working on. When coming back > up, I got an error that says it cannot read a block on the disk, and to > run fsck manually. When I run "fsck -f /dev/adwhatever" it just says > the same thing, listing the blocks it can't read, asks "Continue [yn]", > and no matter what I choose, I still can't mount it. Anyone have any > ides on how to fix this? Looks like it's time to dig out your backups. "Can't read a block" normally means that the disk is dying. You may be able to salvage something by mounting read-only and trying to copy to a new disk. You don't need a clean file system for a read-only mount. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers --y0Ed1hDcWxc3B7cn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+dSYQIubykFB6QiMRAgn6AKCuRq5KTD8goeYrZEfxJvf4tRtNBACfd8ep BqQc26LfGyqso0EzEoWQamM= =vSFL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --y0Ed1hDcWxc3B7cn-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message