Re: Mounting a partition from freebsd 6.2?
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 partitions not wanting to mount in 7? On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 7:45 AM, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: 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 suspect still in 6.2, restore -r should be used only when restoring onto an empty filesystem or loading an incremental on top of such a full restore. If the destination (current directory) is not the root of an empty filesystem, you want restore -x or restore -i instead. I think he was talking about a full filesystem restore in which case 'restore -rf' would be correct. The man page actually is a tiny bit misleading on the -r. You can use it to restore the whole filesystem in any dedicated space including any directory. But with -r you just cannot specify which part of the filesystem you want to restore, such as a particular directory or file. For that you will need -xf which will work for a full filesystem too in most cases. jerry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Mounting a partition from freebsd 6.2?
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 empty filesystem or loading an incremental on top of such a full restore. If the destination (current directory) is not the root of an empty filesystem, you want restore -x or restore -i instead. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Mounting a partition from freebsd 6.2?
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 suspect still in 6.2, restore -r should be used only when restoring onto an empty filesystem or loading an incremental on top of such a full restore. If the destination (current directory) is not the root of an empty filesystem, you want restore -x or restore -i instead. I think he was talking about a full filesystem restore in which case 'restore -rf' would be correct. The man page actually is a tiny bit misleading on the -r. You can use it to restore the whole filesystem in any dedicated space including any directory. But with -r you just cannot specify which part of the filesystem you want to restore, such as a particular directory or file. For that you will need -xf which will work for a full filesystem too in most cases. jerry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Mounting a partition from freebsd 6.2?
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? On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 7:13 PM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: 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 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. 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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Mounting a partition from freebsd 6.2?
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, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: 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 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/ad2s1or 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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Mounting a partition from freebsd 6.2?
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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Mounting a partition from freebsd 6.2?
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 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. 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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
