05-04-2007
Solution to problem
Hello to all that find this thread through Google :-)
I had a similar problem with my HDD and FreeBSD saying there was a bad superblock.
I followed the first step of the procedure and discovered (to my relief) the backup superblocks.
Once past this point the next reccomendation was to use fsck -b 160 /dev/"my partition"
This doesn't work as FreeBSD's fsck command doesn't acknowledge the -b flag as valid.
The trick is to use fsck_ffs which *does* recognise the -b flag and takes the appropriate action. i.e. fsck_ffs -b 160 /dev/"my partition"
Second tip (don't flame me for it's obviousness, not everyone is a super sysop). Make sure you are have root access otherwise no errors will be corrected.
Third Tip. If it looks like your filesystem is in a really bad way, look at the -y flag in the man page. i.e. read man fsck_ffs looking for -y :-)
I hope this is usefull for anyone else that has the problem.
Cheers,
Neil S Davenport
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copyfs-mount
COPYFS-MOUNT(1) User Commands COPYFS-MOUNT(1)
NAME
copyfs-mount - mounts a versioned file system
SYNOPSIS
copyfs-mount version-directory mount-point
DESCRIPTION
This script lets you mount a CopyFS file system. version-directory is the directory where the files and version information will be stored
by CopyFS.
When using CopyFS for the first time, copyfs-mount will create the required files in the version-directory before running copyfs-daemon.
mount-point is the directory where the copyfs file system will be mounted. This is where the users will have access to the files.
If you want to mount a CopyFS at '/mnt/fs', whose version directory is at /var/versions, you would use:
root@host# copyfs-mount /var/versions /mnt/fs
To unmount it, simply do:
root@host# umount /mnt/fs
As you would do for any other filesystem.
You can also allow an ordinary non-root users to mount and unmount CopyFS filesystems provided that the user is added to the 'fuse' group.
Ordinary users will be able unmount the filesystem, using the fusermount command:
$ fusermount -u mount-point
AUTHORS
CopyFS was created by Thomas Joubert and Nicolas Vigier <boklm@mars-attacks.org>
LINKS
<http://n0x.org/copyfs/> CopyFS web site.
<http://fuse.sourceforge.net/> FUSE - Filesystem in USErspace
SEE ALSO
copyfs(1), copyfs-fversion(1), copyfs-daemon(1), fusermount(1)
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