Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:12:47 +0000 From: Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> To: xcllnt@mac.com, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: update to 8.0-RELEASE --> partition gone Message-ID: <20091216231247.GA50353@osiris.mauzo.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <411FD26C-82CD-4FBA-A5C2-866D1C76CE42@mac.com> References: <4B28BCAA.1010002@icyb.net.ua> <21859b54848003a15761f546aed36f1f@localhost>
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Quoth Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com>: > > On Dec 16, 2009, at 3:27 AM, Marian Hettwer wrote: > >> > > gee, thanks! > > That worked. > > root@talisker:/root# ls /dev/ad8* > > /dev/ad8 /dev/ad8s1 /dev/ad8s1a > > root@talisker:/root# mount /dev/ad8s1a /BACKUP/ > > root@talisker:/root# umount /BACKUP/ > > > > but, hm, whats that? > > root@talisker:/root# fsck /dev/ad8s1a > > fsck: Could not determine filesystem type > > I minor inconvenience for the time being. fsck hasn't > been thought about getting partition types from gpart, > so that it can do a best-effort attempt at guessing > which variant to run. For now, you need to be explicit: I for one would rather *not* see fsck extended in this way. The whole point of fsck is that you're running it on a potentially-broken disk; guessing is not helpful at that point :). Ben
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