[Tfug] incorrect super block

Jon bigj at flatwan.net
Wed Jul 18 09:52:06 MST 2007


christopher floess wrote:
> Hi everyone, I'm trying to deal with what seems to be a corrupt
> super block. In FreeBSD when I issue
>
> mount /dev/ad0s2c /mnt/chs
>
> I get
>
> mount: /dev/ad0s2c on /mnt/chs: incorrect super block.
> I have it partitioned as a ufs partition (165), of which other
> partions mount with this command.
>
> Can someone help me fix this? Do I need to run disklabel,
> or newfs? Which one controls this?
>
> Actually if some one can point me to a good explanation
> of the partion process, I would really appreciate it. I've
> always had a hard time finding info on it. I understand the
> whole Unix/MS Partition/Slice thing, as well as the Unix
> partition/slice thing, but from what I can gather, the whole
> process of partitioning/slicing in unix goes
>
> fdisk -> disklabel -> newfs
>
> Is that right? What does each do? And how do I deal with
> rendering a specific slice that either has a corrupt super
> block, or I just want to convert from one thing to
> another?
>
> Ok, a lot of questions here. Really, I just want to get my
> 177 gB of ad0s2 back
>
> ~ Chris
>
>
>
>
>   
fsck the partition. I don't recall the flags needed so I would hit up 
the man page.

--
Jon





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