urgent, need to recover superblock!

[Dave]

Hello,
    Thank you for your suggestion i will do that though i like the 
suggestion of using a vnode mounted image so i don't blow up the data i'm 
trying to save.
Thanks.
Dave.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Long" <scottl at samsco.org>
To: "Dave" <dmehler26 at woh.rr.com>
Cc: <freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 10:43 PM
Subject: Re: urgent, need to recover superblock!


> 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