Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 12:28:15 -0800 From: "Aleksandar Obradovic" <alex@montenegro.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Problems with the drive Message-ID: <005201be0ce8$a7d2ab20$5c265dcf@obradoa.fnic.net>
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I used to have perfectly fine 2.2.6 system running on one SCSI2 drive with partitions sd0s1 DOS sd0s2a / sd0s2b /SWAP sd0s2e /VAR sd0s2f /USR I had boot set up so it gives me options F1...DOS F2...FreeBSD My bios was set up to boot from SCSI first and then from C. Then I needed to add WinNT to the box (business requirement, not a personal preference) so I slapped in another drive trying not to touch my FreeBSD drive. I put in 4 gig IDE drive, configured BIOS to boot from C first and then SCSI, and installed NT fine. However, when I switched back the BIOS to boot from SCSI first in order to boot my FreeBSD, I got the old menu F1...DOS F2...FreeBSD but this time FreeBSD would not boot any more, it would just hang. I tried to go into fixit, and do fsck. The command fsck -y /dev/sd0s2 performs some cleanup and exits with the message /: write failed, file system is full Segmentation fault I wanted to mount my partition sd0s2a so I can check out my config files and fstab, but I do not have sd0s2a entry in my /dev/ directory while I am running fixit. All I have is sd0s1 sd0s2 ... sd0s4, and rsd0s1, ..rsd0s4. When I mount sd0s1 to mnt mount -f /dev/sd0s1 /mnt and do cd /mnt all I see is lost+found directory that has many many #9999 entries, where 9 can be any digit. My questions are 1. did I loose everything? 2. Can I somehow restore this drive and my old settings 3. If not, is there any way to recover data from the non-bootable FreeBSD drive. All I need from this disk are my data files, so if I reinstall FreeBSD on to the different drive, will I be able to recover data from this current drive? I would really appreciate some answers, Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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