At 11:01 AM -0500 6/4/00, Frederick Bruckman wrote:

>On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, Nathan Raymond wrote:
>
>>  fsck -T ffs:"-c 2" /
>>
>>  which promptly core dumped.  Doing an fsck on the volume now produces
>>  the following error:
>>
>>  /dev/rsd0a: BAD SUPER BLOCK: VALUES IN SUPER BLOCK DISAGREE WITH
>>  THOSE IN FIRST ALTERNATE
>
>Try to use the alternate superblock: "fsck_ffs -b 32".

I tried that first, and though it asks if I want to update the 
standard superblock (and I said yes), the problem still persists.

(I just tried again, and its still not fixed.)

>  > and fsck can't do a thing about it, apparently.  At least I haven't
>>  found a way through reading the man pages to get fsck or fsck_ffs to
>>  fix it.  Do I really need to reformat the partition and start over?
>>  And is this a bug, or did I do something wrong?
>
>Sounds like a bug. I could swear "fsck_ffs -c3 /" worked for me at
>some time in the past (NetBSD-1.3.2?).

Hmmm.  I guess this is something most folks don't do?

--
Nathan Raymond