topic Re: mount a disk with bad sectors in Operating System - HP-UX

mount a disk with bad sectors

Keith Schoenefeld — Tue, 27 Jun 2000 12:44:21 GMT

I am running HPUX 10.20 on an J210XC. One hard drive failed, and I know it has bad sectors, but I want to try and mount it to recover some data that didn't get transferred on the last backup. Last time I had a failure such as this, I was told a command by HP Support that would just set the FS_CLEAN flag on the disk and let me mount it. Unfortunately for me, I can't find my notes from that incident at all. Can anyone help me out with the command?

Re: mount a disk with bad sectors

Andy Monks — Tue, 27 Jun 2000 13:25:20 GMT

you haven't mentioned if it's hfs or vxfs (jfs). if it's hfs use mount -f. jfs requires fsdb

Re: mount a disk with bad sectors

Keith Schoenefeld — Tue, 27 Jun 2000 13:31:38 GMT

It is HFS, but here is what I get when I try mount -f:

# mount -f /dev/vg02/lvol10 /export/home2
usage: mount [-l][-v|-p]
mount [-F FStype][-eQ] -a
mount [-F FStype][-eQrV][-o specific_options]
{ special | directory }
mount [-F FStype][-eQrV][-o specific_options]
special directory
#

Re: mount a disk with bad sectors

Keith Schoenefeld — Tue, 27 Jun 2000 13:34:21 GMT

nevermind, I specified -F hfs with the -f flag and it worked fine. My apologies.

Re: mount a disk with bad sectors

Andy Monks — Tue, 27 Jun 2000 13:34:48 GMT

Keith,

Do mount -F hfs -f /dev/.....