Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 23:56:20 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Chip <chip@wiegand.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help! I've apparently lost a bunch of my files and programs! Message-ID: <20000313235620.I14279@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <00031323085200.00644@chip.homenet>; from chip@wiegand.org on Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 11:06:23PM -0800 References: <00031323085200.00644@chip.homenet>
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* Chip <chip@wiegand.org> [000313 23:42] wrote: > I was working in fbsd just fine when I recieved an email from a friend > in rtf format. So I rebooted into winblows to read it, then rebooted back > into fbsd, except it wouldn't boot up. I got a kernel panic and it failed to > boot. I tried the emergency boot off the cd so I could get my data files > copied off, out of my user directory. Only problem, I wasn't allowed to > enter my user directory! I tried over and over, finally gave up and installed > another harddrive and installed a new copy of fbsd, figuring I could then > mount the original and access my files that way. Huh,sure. Well, I am able > to mount the drive okay, but the /home/chip directory is gone, in fact all > the programs I used are gone! Bluefish, Gimp, Wxftp, they are all gone! > I tried a Find *.htm and it came up with everything except the ones I was > working on. I have many hours worth of html files I have to get off that > drive. > They must be there somewhere, but where? I was able to mount wd3s1, > is there another partition that I may need to look at mounting? I tried > wd3s2 but that doesn't work. > I really need those files, please help. look in your /etc/fstab (i'm assuming the data you're able to access is your root partition) then try to mount those devices listed. you'll need to adjust them to take into account that you've moved you disk, meaning probably something like wd1s1a instead of wd0s1a. good luck, -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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