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Subject: Re: mounting old filesystem - Re: panic: vinvalbuf: dirty bufs
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Yes, that's done the trick  .... thanks
I'm now happily recovering files off the old disk.
Once I've recovered all files, and I'm happy new installation is OK,
I'll try reformatting old disk.

Dave

Sheldon Hearn wrote:

> On Wed, 10 May 2000 17:05:06 +0100, David Larkin wrote:
>
> > What I want to do is try and mount my old /usr partition
> > and hopefully recover some files.
> >
> > I was hoping to do something like
> >
> > mount /dev/wd1s1f /mnt
> >
> > but /dev/wd1s1f does not exist
>
> Does wd1s1f exist?  You probably just have to create the device nodes in
> the /dev directory.
>
> > I guess I need to do 'newfs' or something similar, but
> > the man page is a little cryptic.
>
> Oh, I wouldn't do that.  The newfs(8) utility will create a new
> filesystem, overwriting whatever was there before. :-)
>
> Try this:
>
>         cd /dev
>         ./MAKEDEV wd1s1f
>
> :-)
>
> Ciao,
> Sheldon.
>
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