From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 6 10:35:29 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA08264 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 6 Dec 1995 10:35:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from gc.cairn.org (tdrew@cairn.org [165.254.133.51]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA08216 Wed, 6 Dec 1995 10:35:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (from tdrew@localhost) by gc.cairn.org (8.6.9/8.6.9) id SAA09186; Wed, 6 Dec 1995 18:31:29 GMT Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 13:31:28 -0500 (EST) From: Drew Morone X-Sender: tdrew@gc To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Horrifying System Crash! Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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