urgent, need to recover superblock!

[Scott Long]

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.

Scott