"Cannot find file system superblock" error - how to recover?

[Jerry McAllister]

> 
> 
> --- Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko <doublef at tele-kom.ru> wrote:
> 
> > I can't find a zero-bad floppy in this place! It's all the holidays!
> 
> That's what AOL disks (vs. discs) used to be good for. :)
> 
> > With `c', they're all offset by 63(why?). But still, you can mount the
> > partitions on the ad4s1, so the disklabel should be ok...
> 
> Yeah. Starts to suggest what we were thinking was a evidence related to the
> problem is really unrelated and "normal" behavior (is disklabel/bsdlabel
> only meant to be run on slices and not bsd-partitions?). 


Sorry, I haven't been following this whole thread and so am not responding 
to your real problem/question.   But, just in regards to this fragment:

You have it backwards in this question.   Disklabel is meant to run
only on bsd partitions and not slices.   Slices (1-4) are the major 
divisions of the disk and partitions (a-h) are divisions within slices. 
Fdisk is what creates slices.

////jerry


>            Are we looking in
> the wrong place? What about that potentially good superblock we found a
> while ago? (the skip 16 one that contained "/data" in it) Should we be
> saving that somewhere while we can? (how?)
> 
> Anyone out there know 5.x file-system dirtiness like the back of their hand?
> C'mon, you know you wanna join the fun. :)
> 
> Where's my time machine so I can go back and back up this drive... ah well
> I'm learning a ton.
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