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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!agate!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!usenet.etri.re.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.cais.net!bofh.dot!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Bad Super Block Wrong magic number Date: 15 May 1996 21:29:58 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4ndicm$5dd@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <3198CC8C.1CC3@shockwave.blast.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Pat McPartland <mcp@shockwave.blast.net> wrote: > My system crashed while trying to do a dump to the tape drive. I get > a "bad super block magic number wrong" message that fsck can't fix. > Is there a way to fix this without killing all my files? The fixit floppy, and a backup tape. If your root file system is still intact, you perhaps don't need the fixit floppy (since you can boot single-user, and try to fix the problem). There's an fsdb around (it went to /xperimnt in 2.1R and is in the base system in the 2.2 development sources), but it's perhaps rather tricky to use it. Try if you can use alternate superblocks (fsck -b 32). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)