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From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@apropo.ro>
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On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 17:34:51 -0000
"Admin" <admin@sycos.co.uk> wrote:

> Dear Sir/ Madam,
> 
> After installing the FreeBSD minimum installation, I, installed the
> ports using the sysinstall. But, when I tried to install XFree86
> package, it failed to complete the installation. Now, it has corrupted
> the root (/) and /tmp partition. 

Unlikely pkg_add itself to do that. An other thing has gone bad.

> After running the fsck command
> manually on root, I recovered the root file system, but, it won't let
> me recover the /tmp filesystem.

Eror message ? We cannot guess what your console is printing.


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