Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:00:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Drew Jenkins <drewjenkinsjr@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Corrupted OS Message-ID: <168472.68642.qm@web62203.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
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I have lots of other files, yes, several gigabytes worth. I have a satellit= e dish connection, which for uploading has all the speed of a telephone lin= e. It's a production server. And I don't have my hands on the console. I th= ink I'll avoid fdisk, but thanks anyway ;)=0ADrew=0A=0A----- Original Messa= ge ----=0AFrom: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>=0ATo: Drew Jenkins <drew= jenkinsjr@yahoo.com>=0ACc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org=0ASent: Friday, Ma= rch 16, 2007 11:17:55 AM=0ASubject: Re: Corrupted OS=0A=0AOn Fri, Mar 16, 2= 007 at 05:09:15PM +0700, Drew Jenkins wrote:=0A=0A> 23Hi;=0A> Is it possibl= e to rebuild an OS without reformatting the hard drive? I =0A> have FBSD6.2= , so I can't upgrade.=0A=0AI am not sure just what you are trying to avoid.= =0AFirst of all, strictly speaking, when installing FreeBSD you never=0Afor= mat or reformat the hard-drive. That is a much lower level=0Aoperation. F= reeBSD and all other OSen use the factory format=0Aunless you do something = unusually drastic.=0A=0ADoing fdisk/bsdlabel/newfs is not technically 'form= atting' the drive=0Abut rather building slices, partitions and filesystems = on the drive.=0A=0ANow. You do not have to redo the fdisk, bsdlabel and n= ewfs to=0Awipe out and reinstall things, but why not do them? They take= =0Avery little time. The only reason I could think of would be if=0Ayou = have a lot of your own files you don't want to nuke. But, in=0Athat case, = the better course of action would be to back them up=0Asomewhere safe and d= o the complete reinstall from scratch and then=0Abring your own files back.= =0A=0A////jerry=0A=0A> TIA,=0A> Drew=0A> =0A> _____________________________= __________________=0A> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list=0A> http:= //lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions=0A> To unsubscribe, = send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"=0A> =0A=0A=0A= =0A=0A=0A=0A=0A =0A________________________________________________________= ____________________________=0AExpecting? Get great news right away with em= ail Auto-Check. =0ATry the Yahoo! Mail Beta.=0Ahttp://advision.webevents.ya= hoo.com/mailbeta/newmail_tools.html
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