Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 22:27:03 -0500 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> Cc: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disk recovery problem(s) Message-ID: <18828.65415.583989.488704@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <20090206202421.GA55683@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <18828.37913.857833.472632@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20090206202421.GA55683@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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Roland Smith writes: > > huff@>> fsck /dev/da3a > > ** /dev/da3a > > ** Last Mounted on /backup > > ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes > > ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames > > ROOT INODE UNALLOCATED > > ALLOCATE? [yn] > > > > a) what's probably happened? > > Error messages are explained in Appendix A of > /usr/share/doc/smm/03.fsck/paper.ascii.gz > > Unfortunately it says that this error "should never happen". :-/ > > Answer y, and all directorys and files found in the root will > appear in lost+found, unless the attempt to allocate the root > inode fails.. Thank you. That worked ... sort of. Robert Huff
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