On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 01:15:52PM -0800, mojo fms wrote: > I can run a check disk on it and it returned that the file system was > previously mounted on /mnt/backup and returns that the file system is in > good shape. I will have to wait until I get back in front of it to attempt > the dump piped to restore. I have never had to recover a drive like that, > is there anything specific I should look at for switches or just dump > /dev/ad2s1 | restore?
Use: dump 0af - | restore -rf - > > On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 7:13 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > "mojo fms" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I was working on an upgrade to 6.3 from 6.2 and I lost power > > > during the install which hosed most of my system. Instead of > > > trying to really recover it I decided to just rebuild. I have a > > > backup of my /etc and /usr/local/etc on a different drive that > > > should be fine, it was just mounted under /mnt normally and used > > > for backups. My problem is that I installed 7.1 and was careful > > > not to erase any data on that drive, but my only options for a > > > partition to mount is /dev/ad2s1. When I try to mount that it > > > gives me "mount: /dev/ad2s1 : Operation not permitted", what can > > > I do to get the data off of it? I only really care about my /etc > > > information but it would be nice to get all of the information > > > off of it. Is it already mounted as something? Do a df -k and see what shows up. Was it just /dev/ad2s1 or more like /dev/ad2s1a (or some other partition letter? ////jerry > > > > Supposing ad2s1 is in fact the slice containing the filesystem in > > question, and the filesystem was originally made directly on that > > slice without partitioning it, it should be possible to run dump(8) > > against it and pipe the output to restore(8). This should work if > > the slice is readable, even if it cannot be mounted. > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
