On 2021-02-09, Ed Gray <e.mask....@gmail.com> wrote: > I have backups and will probably not have lost anything important but I > just wondered if anyone had any suggestions as to whether this is fixable > and what steps to take before I give up and re-install? I followed a how-to > I found which suggested using scan_ffs to rebuild my disklabel but it's > finding some of the volumes and not all of them.
If you were able to recover /var, check in /var/backups where you will hopefully find some disklabel.* files. scan_ffs does not support FFS2, previously used only for large filesystems but on newer installations now used for all filesystems.
