On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 02:24:06AM -0800, Don Lewis wrote: > On 26 Feb, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > A recent panic left my FS with some serious corruption, which fsck is > > unable to repair: > > > > # fsck_ufs -b 376512 -fy /var > > Alternate super block location: 376512 > > ** /dev/twed0s1e > > ** Last Mounted on > > ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes > > fsck_ufs: cannot alloc 3166749884 bytes for inoinfo > > > > (same holds for any superblock I've tried). > > > > How can I recover from this, short of running newfs? > > What does dumpfs say about the contents of the superblock? For some > reason fsck thinks it needs to allocate space to hold the information > about 791687471 in one cylinder group, which seems a bit unlikely. I needed to get the machine back up and running so I mounted /var r/o, copied across data without incident and newfs'ed the filesystem. Kris
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