Re: recovery after power outage

2007-02-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 08:14:28PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: On 2/12/07, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 04:48:44PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165

Re: recovery after power outage

2007-02-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 04:48:44PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: On 2/9/07, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 12:06:20PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)

Re: recovery after power outage

2007-02-12 Thread Marty Landman
On 2/12/07, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 04:48:44PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63, size 490223412 (239366 Meg), flag 80 (active)

Re: recovery after power outage

2007-02-09 Thread Marty Landman
On 2/8/07, Pieter de Goeje [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the slice and partition table are still intact (as they were before the outage), a normal fsck -F on /dev/ad1s1a will get the pc booting again. Well I managed to get the machine booting by editing /etc/fstab %cat /etc/fstab # Device

Re: recovery after power outage

2007-02-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 07:46:10AM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: On 2/8/07, Pieter de Goeje [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the slice and partition table are still intact (as they were before the outage), a normal fsck -F on /dev/ad1s1a will get the pc booting again. Well I managed to get the

Re: recovery after power outage

2007-02-09 Thread Marty Landman
On 2/9/07, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 07:46:10AM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: %sudo fsck -F ad1s1c fsck: exec fsck_unused for /dev/ad1s1c in /sbin:/usr/sbin: No such file or directory fsck: exec fsck_unused for /dev/ad1s1c in /sbin:/usr/sbin: No such

Re: recovery after power outage

2007-02-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 12:06:20PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: On 2/9/07, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 07:46:10AM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: %sudo fsck -F ad1s1c fsck: exec fsck_unused for /dev/ad1s1c in /sbin:/usr/sbin: No such file or directory

Re: recovery after power outage

2007-02-09 Thread Marty Landman
On 2/9/07, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 12:06:20PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63, size 490223412 (239366 Meg), flag 80 (active)

Re: recovery after power outage

2007-02-08 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Thursday 08 February 2007 03:08, Marty Landman wrote: On 2/7/07, Pieter de Goeje [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ad1s1c is a partition that contains the entire disk or slice in this case. Dangerously dedicated is when you have no slices: ad1a, ad1b, ad1c etc. You should _only_ fsck the

Re: recovery after power outage

2007-02-07 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Wednesday 07 February 2007 03:06, Marty Landman wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: Well, do as it says - choose a shell and run fsck manually. Heh, for starters I assumed (always a bad thing) that fsck wasn't available because I did a 'which fsck' and got 'which not found' as a response. But

Re: recovery after power outage

2007-02-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 09:06:05PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: Well, do as it says - choose a shell and run fsck manually. Heh, for starters I assumed (always a bad thing) that fsck wasn't available because I did a 'which fsck' and got 'which not found' as a

Re: recovery after power outage

2007-02-07 Thread Peter A. Giessel
On 2007/02/06 17:06, Marty Landman seems to have typed: Jerry McAllister wrote: Just run /sbin/fsck /dev/ad1s1c. Actually that would be a somewhat unusual address - what they call a 'dangerously dedicated' disk. Can you explain or point me to more info on why that was a poor choice on my

Re: recovery after power outage

2007-02-07 Thread Marty Landman
On 2/7/07, Pieter de Goeje [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ad1s1c is a partition that contains the entire disk or slice in this case. Dangerously dedicated is when you have no slices: ad1a, ad1b, ad1c etc. You should _only_ fsck the individual partitions (ad0s1a), never the complete disk (ad0) or

recovery after power outage

2007-02-06 Thread Marty Landman
My fbsd 6.0 box is having filesystem problems on boot since a blackout yesterday. Here's a synopsis: /dev/ad0s1a: clean /dev/ad0s1d: DEFER FOR BACKGROUND CHECKING ...repeats for ad0s1f e then reports error=40UNCORRECTABLE for ad1 (twice) and reports an unexpected inconsistency for my ad1s1c

Re: recovery after power outage

2007-02-06 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Marty Landman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: My fbsd 6.0 box is having filesystem problems on boot since a blackout yesterday. Here's a synopsis: /dev/ad0s1a: clean /dev/ad0s1d: DEFER FOR BACKGROUND CHECKING ...repeats for ad0s1f e then reports error=40UNCORRECTABLE for ad1 (twice)

Re: recovery after power outage

2007-02-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 11:54:17AM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: My fbsd 6.0 box is having filesystem problems on boot since a blackout yesterday. Here's a synopsis: /dev/ad0s1a: clean /dev/ad0s1d: DEFER FOR BACKGROUND CHECKING ...repeats for ad0s1f e then reports error=40UNCORRECTABLE for

Re: recovery after power outage

2007-02-06 Thread Marty Landman
Jerry McAllister wrote: Well, do as it says - choose a shell and run fsck manually. Heh, for starters I assumed (always a bad thing) that fsck wasn't available because I did a 'which fsck' and got 'which not found' as a response. But fsck itself is there. Just run /sbin/fsck /dev/ad1s1c.