From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 12 19:01:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA29956 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 12 Jul 1997 19:01:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jh2.tor.servtech.com (jh2.tor.servtech.com [204.181.8.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA29940 for ; Sat, 12 Jul 1997 19:01:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by jh2.tor.servtech.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA00292 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 12 Jul 1997 18:03:24 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.1 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 18:00:37 -0400 (EDT) From: isis@jh2.tor.servtech.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Superblocks and Magic numbers Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi I am having a problem with my main HD. Its IDE. I can fsck , mount, and read the right label on wd0s1. any other part of it , I get the following error from fsck: BAD SUPER BLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG /dev/rwd0: NOT LABELED AS A BSD FILE SYSTEM (unused) I know the fdisk and disklabel parameters, and want to recover the drive but don t know how to fix the SUPER BLOCK or MAGIC number. any help would be appreciated. ---------------------------------- E-Mail: isis@jh2.tor.servtech.com Date: 12-Jul-97 Time: 18:00:37 This message was sent by XFMail ----------------------------------