mount a disk with bad sectors

[Keith Schoenefeld]

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?

[Andy Monks · Accepted solution]

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

[Keith Schoenefeld]

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
#

[Keith Schoenefeld]

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

[Andy Monks]

Keith,

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