Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 11:06:48 -0000 From: Martin Tournoy <carpetsmoker@gmail.com> To: "Sven Hazejager" <sven.hazejager@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HELP! Filesystem EMPTY after upgrade from 4.11 to 6.1 Message-ID: <op.tbjntmexipwu61@carpetsmoker.ictwerkplaats.org> In-Reply-To: <cbdeb7680606211306m72c38c95oc58d32b78adffcc0@mail.gmail.com> References: <cbdeb7680606211306m72c38c95oc58d32b78adffcc0@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 20:06:38 -0000, Sven Hazejager = <sven.hazejager@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all! > > I have quite a big problem here.... > > I've upgraded my FreeBSD 4.11 to 6.1. Basically, I did a newfs of / an= d = > /usr > and reinstalled from scratch. That worked. > > Rebooted in 6.1 single user mode, mounted /, /usr and /usr/home. The = > latter > I did not touch and I need to save that partition. /usr/home had all t= he > files it needed to have. PROBLEM: mount said soft-updates were not set= on > /usr/home. So I did umount /usr/home, tunefs -n enable /usr/home, moun= t > /usr/home again... EMPTY!!!! > > What has gone wrong? I did fsck (in read-only), no problems, rebooted = the > system, did tunefs -n disable, still no luck. I really need those file= s > guys... > > Please help urgently. > > Many thanks, > > Sven Hazejager 4.11 uses UFS1, 6.1 UFS2, there might be some conflict there... Try using stellar phoenix BSD, it can recover data, before you start = messing around and destroy stuff... It's not free, but there's a free trial... http://www.stellarinfo.com/download/download_form.php?sid=3D35
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