Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 13:31:28 -0500 (EST) From: Drew Morone <tdrew@cairn.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Horrifying System Crash! Message-ID: <Pine.SV4.3.91.951206133007.9159A-100000@gc>
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Today, I woke up, decided to reboot the system to fix the tape backup, and the system would not boot. Here's the problem: The partition table is -totally- screwed. There are all kinds of messed up entries in there. I tried booting to floppy, and using the fixit disk to "fix" things, but what I get back is the following: from fsck /dev/sd0 BAD SUPER BLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG /dev/rsd0 NOT LABELED AS A BSD FILESYSTEM (unused) I tried fsck -b16 (and b32 and b64) and I got the same message I tried fdisk. They showed the data for the partitions, and they were all screwed up. The question is, what can I do to restore the partition table? Is there anyway I can mount a partition, and get a copy of it somewhere? Also, is there anyway I can avoid this? I've got 400 users who are trying to get their mail, files, etc.. Please help! Drew
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