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Date:      Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:56:52 -0700
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        Eitan Adler <eitanadlerlist@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: badly munged system
Message-ID:  <2265A63C-DE63-4096-8890-D756A21BDE50@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <a0777e080907171355h4d422681x5d8c88456d38a18d@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <a0777e080907171355h4d422681x5d8c88456d38a18d@mail.gmail.com>

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On Jul 17, 2009, at 1:55 PM, Eitan Adler wrote:
> How could I get out of this state without losing data?

Start by making a backup of the existing system.  Do a clean  
reinstall, preferably on other disk or system, and then restore your  
data files onto this other disk/system and test before making any  
further changes to the problematic disk.

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck




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