From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 26 14:47:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA21726 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 14:47:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cm110119.cableco-op.com (cm110119.cableco-op.com [206.24.110.119]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA21719 for ; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 14:47:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jwg@cm110119.cableco-op.com) Received: (from jwg@localhost) by cm110119.cableco-op.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA19670; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 14:49:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jwg) Message-ID: <19980926144920.04980@cm110119.cableco-op.com> Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 14:49:20 -0700 From: Jeff Gray To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: bad disk name and cannot mount Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Decided to upgrade a system by buying a new physical server, transfer all the files over, and then use the old system for another purpose. Both the old and new physical servers are running 2.2.6 Both have the same mount points and the same storage/disk hardware, raid 5. Same everything except for amount of ram and speed of the processor. Proceedure I used was to, over tcp/ip as the servers are both remote ones, a) tar up / on old b) ftp it to new c) extract it on new Had three mount points, / /usr /usx No problem after the proceedure on / and /usx All was working fine. Needed to move over /usr/lib as new did not have the same library as one would expect. First I moved over /usr/doc No problem. Then did it for /usr/lib and at the end of tar xvf lib.tar I got disconnected from the server. Could not telnet in any longer. Could not ftp in. Could still ping it. Called a friend who went to the console of the new server. Ask him to login. A check of cd /usr/lib and ls showed the library installed. A check of the /usr directory showed an ftp core dump. Figured I would look at it later. Had him try shutdown -r now and reboot, no way. Finally had him do ^-alt-del and... it did not fully come back up. The console says, in caps, bad disk name /dev/sd0se2 bad disk name /dev/sd0s2f These are the correct device nodes for /usr and /usx When he checked df -k only / mounted. Had him check /etc/fstab and it looks correct but cannot mount /usr or /usx So, I had him look at cd /usr ls <--well... it is empty. ls -a <--yielded only the . and .. directories Same situation with /usx Now, a) any idea what happened or what caused this? b) any way short of re-installing to recover and get files and remote access back? c) other suggestions appreciated. Thanks jeff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message