Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 11:31:28 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: armando_ferreira@il.us.swissbank.com Cc: Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk>, Philip Milne <philip_milne@il.us.swissbank.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.org, charlie_conklin@il.us.swissbank.com Subject: Re: Nightmare. Message-ID: <32121B80.695678E2@whistle.com> References: <4826.839936227@time.cdrom.com> <9608140942.AA00451@ln1d278nwk>
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Armando Ferreira wrote: > > Hi, > > The command that I actually used was tar -cvf /dev/rsd0a / this is good because it limitted teh damage. ONLY the root partition will be damaged (excep maybe small things elsewhere due to the system being brought down suddenly). > > I have since built FreeBSD on a different disk which is working fine. What I > need to do now, is to check that the /usr partition of the old disk was not > damaged. you can find out which is which by running fsck on the subdevices.. /dev/rsd0[defgh] (unless it's now sd1 :-) fsck will tell you where the filesystem was last mounted.. > > I don't know how to mount the /usr partition of the old disk because I expect > it to have the same device name as /usr in the new disk. > > Is there a way I can distinguish them ? > > Thanks for your help, > Armando
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