Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 12:49:14 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@woozle.rinet.ru> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Getting info from a crashed disk Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971103124822.26018A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971102151430.9794A-100000@woozle.rinet.ru>
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On Sun, 2 Nov 1997, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > Hi there, hope you'll never put yourself in a situation similar to mine. > > "FreeBSD woozle.rinet.ru 2.2.5-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE" > > I had an IDE disk on my machine (Quantum FB 1080A, rather old). Some days > ago i type "pine" and got message complaining about reading my mailbox. > Moment look at the console got unrecoverable read error message. > Digging into a problem i found directories /var/mail and /usr/home > (yeah! :((() unreadable. System was 2.2.2-R. I install 2.2.5-R on a new disk > and tried to dump old /usr (mount it readonly) to new disk. dump prints many > error messages about non-readable disk areas but create dump file. > However, restore claims that file isn't dump at all. > > Is there a reasonable way to get at least my home directory back? Restore from backup? :-( You're not in good shape. I'd back up what's important and try a reboot so fsck can fix the damage. The files are probably hosed tho. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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