Thomas Exner wrote:
> when running fsck the first error message is "ROOT INODE UNALLOCATED"
> ...
> Is there a chance to get the data back?
Dunno about current versions, but IIRC some earlier versions of
dump(8) could handle even a badly-corrupted FS. No harm in trying,
since it will not try to
Roland Smith writes:
> > huff@>> fsck /dev/da3a
> > ** /dev/da3a
> > ** Last Mounted on /backup
> > ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes
> > ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames
> > ROOT INODE UNALLOCATED
> > ALLOCATE? [yn]
> >
> >a) what's probably happened?
>
> Error messages are expla
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 14:48:41 -0500, Robert Huff wrote:
>
> Had a power outage recently; when trying to fsck several
> external hard drives I'm getting unexpected errors.
> For example:
>
> huff@>> fsck /dev/da3a
> ** /dev/da3a
> ** Last Mounted on /backup
> ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks a
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 02:48:41PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote:
>
> Had a power outage recently; when trying to fsck several
> external hard drives I'm getting unexpected errors.
> For example:
>
> huff@>> fsck /dev/da3a
> ** /dev/da3a
> ** Last Mounted on /backup
> ** Phase 1 - Check Bl
