From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 24 19:51:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from greg.ad9.com (greg.ad9.com [64.161.198.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78F7837B401 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 19:51:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from greg.ad9.com (nepolon@greg.ad9.com [64.161.198.140]) by greg.ad9.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA22995 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 20:05:18 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 20:05:18 -0800 (PST) From: Steve Lewis X-Sender: nepolon@greg.ad9.com To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: help needed: dead filesystem? In-Reply-To: <14959.30198.637838.708542@guru.mired.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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