On Thursday 23 February 2006 04:43, Scott Long wrote: > Dave wrote: > > Hello, > > Some urgency on this issue! I've got a 10 gb ide drive that has > > critical data on one of it's > > partitions /dev/ad1e. This drive was originally gmirrored in > > another box it worked fine, it was the master drive. Now i've > > installed this drive as a slave in another 6.0 box, and now it > > shows up as ad1 with the partition i want being ad1e. I did a mount it > > worked fine. So i knew the drive was working, i then unmounted the > > partition, and tried to dump it to another drive. This didn't work, dump > > got > > an error about incorrect superblock. I then did a mount > > -o ro /dev/ad1e /mnt and i'm getting an error "Incorrect > > superblock" from mount. I then tried fsck /dev/ad1e and got the > > same error msg. These partitions were formatted with ufs2 as their > > filesystem. I then ran bsdlabel ad1 and got a printout of my label, > > this showed up which gives me hope that this data can be retrieved. > > An error i'm getting from bsdlabel says that the c: partition does not > > cover > > the > > entire disk and that may result in utilities not working correctly. Any > > help appreciated. > > Some urgency! > > Dave. > > Sounds like you need to install ports/syutils/ffsrecov and spend some > quality time with it tonight.
I'll add ports/sysutils/testdisk to the list of useful tools. -- Florent Thoumie [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD Committer
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