Re: Mounting a partition from freebsd 6.2?

2009-01-14 Thread mojo fms
It was /dev/ad2s1. I was able to do a force mount of the partition though and started recovering the information I was looking for. I am not sure why it is not allowing it in general but I have access to most of the files right now which is good. Has anybody had any problems with 6.2 formatted

Re: Mounting a partition from freebsd 6.2?

2009-01-13 Thread perryh
is there anything specific I should look at for switches or just dump /dev/ad2s1 | restore? Use:dump 0af - | restore -rf - It would be advisable to read the dump and restore manpages first. In 6.1, and I suspect still in 6.2, restore -r should be used only when restoring onto an

Re: Mounting a partition from freebsd 6.2?

2009-01-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:06:25AM -0800, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: is there anything specific I should look at for switches or just dump /dev/ad2s1 | restore? Use:dump 0af - | restore -rf - It would be advisable to read the dump and restore manpages first. In 6.1, and I

Re: Mounting a partition from freebsd 6.2?

2009-01-12 Thread mojo fms
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

Re: Mounting a partition from freebsd 6.2?

2009-01-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
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

Mounting a partition from freebsd 6.2?

2009-01-11 Thread mojo fms
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

Re: Mounting a partition from freebsd 6.2?

2009-01-11 Thread perryh
mojo fms fbsdli...@gmail.com 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