[SunHELP] FS crashed

Nicholas Dronen sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Mon Apr 2 13:16:18 CDT 2001


On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 03:10:17PM -0300, Srgio Carvalho wrote:
> Hi Gurus,
> 
> I have a crashed volume in a Solaris 2.6 environment, when I use fsck to 
> check it I have the following message:
> 
> ** /dev/dsk/c2t0d5s6
> BAD SUPER BLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG
> USE AN ALTERNATE SUPER-BLOCK TO SUPPLY NEEDED INFORMATION;
> eg. fsck [-F ufs] -o b=# [special ...]
> where # is the alternate super block. SEE fsck_ufs(1M).

It's telling you to use a backup superblock.

# newfs -N /dev/rdsk/c2t0d5s6
# fsck -F ufs -o b=[ superblock number from newfs output] /dev/rdsk/c2t0d5s6

Regards,

Nicholas Dronen



More information about the SunHELP mailing list