Re: Looking for some help from the OpenBSD gurus

Kent Kostuk writes:
> As luck would have it I was just booting my OpenBSD based server when a
> power failure occurred last night.
>
> This morning, I received the following message while starting my system:
>
> THE FOLLOWING FILE SYSTEM HAD AN UNEXPECTED INCONSTISTENCY:
> ffs: /dev/rwd2d (/westdig1)
> Automatic file system check failed; help!
> Enter pathname of shell or RETURN for sh:
>
> So, from the shell I type:
> fsck_ffs -f /westdig1
>
> I get:
> Can't open /dev/rwd2d: Device not configured.
>
> Now what? Is the whole drive pooched?

Does 'dmesg | grep wd2' or 'disklabel wd2' yield anything useful?
'grep wd2 /var/log/messages' should tell you what wd2 should look
like if the system sees it...

If wd2d is the only partition on wd2, then wd2 is probably toast...

Later...

Greg Oster
Received on Sun Jun 11 16:35:38 2006