Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 11:58:57 -0500 (CDT) From: Dougal Campbell <dougal@iquest.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Partition table update Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.93.960709114459.12026D-100000@vespucci.iquest.com>
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I'm out of panic mode with my drive problem. This morning I was able to mount the drive read-only, and copy the files over to their new location. In case anyone is still interested, here's a recap with some more details. It appears that the partition table was damaged somehow. This happened on my wd1, which was mounted as /usr/local, so I was still able to boot the system. Previously, all attempts to access the drive, even with disklabel or fdisk, gave an error stating that the partition table was unreadable. Because some of the behaviour made it appear that the system couldn't even see the drive (e.g. sysinstall didn't show wd1 as an available drive), I thought that I should double check the CMOS settings. Everything looked fine there. I booted up, then on a whim tried to mount the drive (mount /dev/wd1s1 /mnt). Got an error saying I needed to fsck the filesystem. Did that. Found some bad blocks, and fsck couldn't write changes. Once fsck was done, I started getting the partition table errors again. But, at this point I recalled that one of the mount errors I got said that it couldn't mount read/write. At this point, I rebooted again, tried mounting read-only, and voila. After I've gotten all the important data saved, I'll experiment some more. -- Dougal Campbell | "No animals or aliens were harmed in the making Systems Coordinator | of this film." interQuest: Hsv, AL | dougal@iquest.com | -- Disclaimer in the credits for ID4
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