Comments on: Filesystem Corruption on a Veritas Disk http://www.lofland.net/LoflandBLOG/2006/10/30/filesystem-corruption-on-a-veritas-disk/ babblings! Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:00:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Christopher Calzonetti http://www.lofland.net/LoflandBLOG/2006/10/30/filesystem-corruption-on-a-veritas-disk/#comment-4161 Christopher Calzonetti Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:43:01 +0000 http://www.lofland.net/LoflandBLOG/2006/10/30/filesystem-corruption-on-a-veritas-disk/#comment-4161 It seems a bit disconcerting that the error "FILE SYSTEM STATE IN SUPERBLOCK IS WRONG" is just ignored. I have that problem know, where the partition is clean, but I get that error every time I fsck. Otherwise, I can mount the fs, and use it normally save for one thing: I CAN'T BACK IT UP. I'm trying to use ufsdump to dump the file system to a file, so I can just reformat the partition and try again, but ufsdump creates a bad dump file: ufsdump 0fv dump.ufs /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s6 ... DUMP: Verification error 0 blocks into volume 1 Yuck. It seems a bit disconcerting that the error “FILE SYSTEM STATE IN SUPERBLOCK IS WRONG” is just ignored.

I have that problem know, where the partition is clean, but I get that error every time I fsck. Otherwise, I can mount the fs, and use it normally save for one thing:

I CAN’T BACK IT UP.

I’m trying to use ufsdump to dump the file system to a file, so I can just reformat the partition and try again, but ufsdump creates a bad dump file:

ufsdump 0fv dump.ufs /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s6
…
DUMP: Verification error 0 blocks into volume 1

Yuck.

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