From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 25 15:26:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail3.one.net (mail3.one.net [206.112.192.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A55737B6A3 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 15:25:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from ip-216-23-55-18.adsl.one.net ([216.23.55.18] EHLO arrakis.desert-power.org ident: IDENT-NOT-QUERIED [port 15890]) by mail2.one.net with ESMTP id <365724-15790>; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 18:25:44 -0500 Received: (from mwithers@localhost) by arrakis.desert-power.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA27151; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 18:27:48 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwithers) From: "Mark B. Withers" To: Steve Lewis Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: help needed: dead filesystem? Message-ID: <20010125182747.A26519@arrakis.desert-power.org> References: <14959.30198.637838.708542@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from nepolon@systray.com on Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 10:51:50PM -0500 Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 18:25:39 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Steve, You may want to have a look at a web site dedicated to disaster recovery. As such they probably are full of suggestions. The site is: http://www.toms.net/rb/home.html They have archives of info. Most directed at disaster issues. I hope this is helpful and wish you the best with your recovery. Mark On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 10:51:50PM -0500, Steve Lewis wrote: > > I need help recovering a filesystem, or at least some data from it. > > I am using: > > 4.1-RELEASE > > Machine: Compaq Deskpro 590 (Pentium 90 MHz) > RAM: 80 MB > HD: Maxtor 71687 AP > > I suffered a power outage at home where I have two FreeBSD systems. One > of them is fine. The other seems to have developed some issues: during > boot, the autoboot didn't notice the unplanned reboot (odd) and so when it > tries to boot into multi-user mode, it dies while mounting drives. > > fsck dies while in phase 2 (check pathnames) of a fsck on my /usr > partition (ad0s1f), and the machine locks up tighter than fort knox. I am > not that familiar with fsck, so have not used any command line options for > fear of damaging the fs further. > > I have fsck'ed the other partitions on this drive without issue, although > a number of errors were found in the /var partition. > > Can someone please refer me to a specific resource or give me some idea of > how I might proceed to recover some of the data if I cannot repair this > fs? > > I have look at : > Man pages and The Complete FreeBSD (old version, for FBSD 2.2.0)... the > FreeBSD website seems to be down (or at least portions of it are) so I am > encountering a little difficulty finding resources... > > thanks > --Steve > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message