Hello,


I added an 120 Gig Maxtor external USB disk to a Sun Blade 100, and
was able to format, newfs, and mount the disk properly.
Unfortunately, while moving some files to the new disk (yes, I should
have copied first :-( ), the disk seemed to have lost all the files
(df showed some space being used, but no files exist).

I did a fsck to see if I could repair and recover at least some of the
files, but I get the following error from fsck:

THE FOLLOWING SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ: -2123838464 -2123838463
-2123838462 -2123838461 -2123838460 -2123838459 -2123838458
-2123838457 -2123838456 -2123838455 -2123838454 -2123838453
-2123838452 -2123838451 -2123838450 -2123838449
fsck: warning: the following command (process 634) was terminated by
signal 11 and dumped core
fsck -F ufs -y /dev/rdsk/c3t0d0s2

I am running 8.0 on this Sun Blade 100, and I thought that 8.0 could
recognize disks as big as 120 Gig. The negative numbers in the error
message seem to inicate that the system can not recognize such a big
disk. Was I wrong to to use the entire disk as one partition? What
does the error mean? 'strings core' does not reveal anything useful.
I'm sorry to display such a lack of expertise, but I am a sysadmin by
default, not by training or vocation...

Thanks,
Ashok