// I have an IDE HD with fossil (no venti) partition on it. // It contains some data precious to me.
David's already provided good instructions on dealing with your immediate problem, but allow me to take a step back: Don't do that! Fossil, without venti, is not the stablest thing around. I would very strongly recommend against putting precious data on it. I've had it go wonky personally, and there've been plenty of similar reports here. In my experience, it's particularly vulnerable to unclean shutdown, but I've seen more difficult-to-explain issues, too. With venti, it's great: the snapshotting capabilties are very nice, venti's very solid, and if your fossil does get out of whack, it's trivial to re-initialize it from a known-good state from venti. Anthony
