Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2018 09:47:41 -0500 From: "James B. Byrne" <byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: [SOLVED] usb memory sticj recovery Message-ID: <49873e99798964610854d67b72073d9e.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> In-Reply-To: <mailman.106.1519905651.47584.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> References: <mailman.106.1519905651.47584.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
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On Wed, February 28, 2018 11:19, James B. Byrne wrote:
> I have a usb memory stick whose filesystem FreeBSD will not mount
> because it is 'dirty'. It is dirty because it was removed from the
> FreeBSD host it was connected to. I would would like to recovery this
> device if possible but my attempts to do so using fsck and fsck_ffs
> never start because it cannot find a SUPERBLOCK.
>
> newfs -N gives a list of alternate sb location but fsck_ffs will not
> acept them.
>
> Is there any way to manually turn ff the dirt bit and mount the
> device?
>
>
FOR THE RECORD
I resolved this issue and recovered the memory stick using:
fsck.ext3 /dev/da0s1
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