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Subject: Re: I need help restoring my /usr partition!
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Mark <admin@asarian-host.net> writes:

> I need some urgent help! Trying to restore my /usr partition (FreeBSD 4.7R),
> I get the following errors:
> 
> % restore -N -rf ./usr.back
> expected next file 1125, got 7
> expected next file 1125, got 8
> expected next file 1125, got 529
> expected next file 1125, got 530
> expected next file 6995, got 6872
> expected next file 6995, got 6873
> expected next file 8502, got 8483
> expected next file 8502, got 8484
> expected next file 8828, got 8736
> expected next file 8828, got 8737
> expected next file 22844, got 9619

Sounds like problems with the backup, 
not the disk you're restoring to. 

> Etc. This is the result of the fsck:
> 
> % fsck /usr
> ** /dev/ad0s1g (NO WRITE)
> ** Last Mounted on /usr
> ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes
> ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames
> ** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity
> ** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts
> UNREF FILE I=7  OWNER=nobody MODE=100644
> SIZE=1744 MTIME=Nov  3 14:33 2003
> CLEAR? no
> 
> UNREF FILE I=8  OWNER=nobody MODE=100644
> SIZE=6952 MTIME=Nov  4 10:52 2003
> CLEAR? no
> 
> UNREF FILE I=529  OWNER=root MODE=100660
> SIZE=0 MTIME=Nov  3 00:08 2003
> CLEAR? no
> 
> UNREF FILE I=530  OWNER=root MODE=100660
> SIZE=1521 MTIME=Nov  3 09:13 2003
> CLEAR? no
> 
> 
> I have no idea what these file are, or how to get rid of them. Somebody,
> please help!

Looks like you're doing your fsck while the filesystem is mounted
read-write.  Don't do that.  Unmount it first (single-user mode is
good for this), and *then* fsck it.  You probably won't find any
problems at that time, though -- the unreferenced file handles may
just be normal open handles that will be cleaned up when the
filesystem is umounted and flushed to disk.