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Old 4th December 2009
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Default powersurge - missing mbr?

2 days ago we had a powersurge and no electricity for 1 hour. After the power came back i turned on my server only to notice that i needed to run manual fsck_ffs for wd4. Being very busy in rl i shut off the power.

Now i got a little time over so i started the server, entered shell and tried
disklabel -p wd4
and according to disklabel there is no partitions at all, luckily this wasnt very important data but still, i havent "lost" data like that, might have been a few blocks but this seems to be the mbr?

Is there some sort of way to possibly restore the mbr?
doing fsck wd4 i get
Cant open /dev/wd4a: device not configured
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Old 4th December 2009
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Does the kernel see wd4?
Code:
grep wd[0-9] /var/log/messages
What does fdisk wd4 say?
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Old 4th December 2009
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Code:
fdisk wd4
3: A6  0  1  1  1453515  14  63  63: 14665144002 OpenBSD
Looks like its there...
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Old 4th December 2009
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Yes something is there, but it looks messed up. Compare with one of mine
Code:
$ fdisk wd1

Disk: wd1       geometry: 38913/255/63 [625142448 Sectors]
Offset: 0       Signature: 0xAA55
          Starting         Ending        LBA Info:
 #: id      C   H  S -      C   H  S [       start:        size ]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 0: A5      0   1  1 -   5220 254 63 [          63:    83875302 ] FreeBSD     
*1: A6   5221   0  1 -  10441 254 63 [    83875365:    83875365 ] OpenBSD     
 2: 00      0   0  0 -      0   0  0 [           0:           0 ] unused      
 3: 00      0   0  0 -      0   0  0 [           0:           0 ] unused
Could you post your complete fdisk output?
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That is the MBR partition table, it resides in the first 512 bytes of the disk.. OpenBSD's disklabel resides within the MBR partition.

I can't explain how things got mangled like that, but a copy of it would have resided in /var/backups.

Does /var/backups/disklabel.wd4.current have what you need?

EDIT: J65nko may have spotted further issues, full output from commands in [code][/code] blocks would be appreciated.
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Code:
#fdisk wd4

Disk: wd4     geometry: 1453521/16/63 [1465149168 Sectors]
Offset: 0       Signature: 0xAA55
          Starting         Ending        LBA Info:
 #: id      C   H  S -      C   H  S [       start:        size ]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 0: 00      0   0  0 -      0   0  0 [           0:           0 ] unused      
 1: 00      0   0  0 -      0   0  0 [           0:           0 ] unused      
 2: 00      0   0  0 -      0   0  0 [           0:           0 ] unused      
*3: A6     0   1  1 -  1453515 14 63 [    63:    1465144002 ] OpenBSD
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That looks fine, not sure what he was hinting at.. can you check that file? presumably you haven't kept this system running after the disk issue .

You never posted the output of disklabel, either.
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This is current disklabel wd4
Code:
# Inside MBR partition 3: type A6 start 63 size 1465144002
# /dev/rwd4c:
type : ESDI
disk: ESDI/IDE disk
label: SAMSUNG HD753LJ
flags: 
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 16
tracks/cylinder: 1008
cylinders: 1453521
total sectors: 1465149168
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0                  # microseconds
track-to-track seek:  0        # microseconds
drivedata: 0 

16 partitions:
#     size      offset  type   [fsize bsize cpg]
c: 1465149168    0     unused
and this is disklabel backup from /var/backups/disklabel.wd4.current
Code:
# Inside MBR partition 3: type A6 start 63 size 1465144002
# /dev/rwd4c:
type : ESDI
disk: ESDI/IDE disk
label: SAMSUNG HD753LJ
flags: 
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 16
sectors/cylinder: 1008
cylinders: 16383
total sectors: 1465149168
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0                  # microseconds
track-to-track seek:  0        # microseconds
drivedata: 0 

16 partitions:
#     size       offset   type   [fsize  bsize cpg]
a: 1465144002    63     4.2BSD     2048 16384 328
c: 1465149168    0       unused
So this is obviosly wrong, can i just edit the faultydata with fdisk (using backupdata and it should work?
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Old 5th December 2009
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No, you should use disklabel wd4 to re-add the lost a partition.
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I edited what was needed, but i cant access the cpg-value. Dont have a clue what it actually is. Any way to access/change the value would be more then welcome
Code:
#     size       offset   type   [fsize  bsize cpg]
a: 1465144002    63     4.2BSD     2048 16384 1
i used disklabel -E wd4. tried with -e but doesnt work because of readonly...

Last edited by knasbas; 5th December 2009 at 09:25 AM. Reason: changed the cpgvalue. changed from quote2code
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After editing with disklabel -E wd4 how does it look like now?
BTW Please use code tags instead of quote tags

IIRC values like cpg are a result from the newfs formatting command
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You can use the backup disklabel without hand editing at all. See the disklabel(8) man page, and read about -R.
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Thank you for help!
disklabel -R worked and now everything is back to normal!
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