Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 09:15:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: vadim@e-complex.ru Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: File system failure! URGENT Help needed! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0206230902341.44896-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <1577698468.20020623150139@e-complex.ru>
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I suspect that data to both drives was written to both drives.. :-( My suspicion is that some unknown amount of data was irretrievably lost. The mantra of sysads is always: "Do a full backup before changing the hardware" On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 vadim@e-complex.ru wrote: > Hi All! > > After adding new drive to system 2 of old drives was installed on > one cable, and (by fatal flaw) both as slave. And after FBSD is booted it writed > identical information onto both of that drivers simultaneously. > As a result both filesystems is down. After that fsck was runed... > and now very important data is lost. > > is was from words of the system administrator. > > Is it possible to recover data? I understand what I give you very > small information, but it is all of I know. > > there is an example: > > newserver# ls /backup/ > Distr Profiles all buh home pto smeta > newserver# ls -i /backup/ > ls: all: Bad file descriptor > ls: buh: Bad file descriptor > ls: smeta: Bad file descriptor > 6007573 Distr 14348288 Profiles 7936 home 12054848 pto > > It is obvious, that the part of inodes was lost. How can we restore > it? May be, it is possible to recover that by info what is in the > files? > > Thank you in advance, and sorry for a bad English. > > Vl. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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