From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 17 21:56:53 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33B551065680 for ; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:56:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout017.mac.com (asmtpout017.mac.com [17.148.16.92]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 209A48FC1D for ; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:56:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Received: from cswiger1.apple.com ([17.227.140.124]) by asmtp017.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-8.01 (built Dec 16 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0KMY00JM74YSKL90@asmtp017.mac.com> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:56:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-id: <2265A63C-DE63-4096-8890-D756A21BDE50@mac.com> From: Chuck Swiger To: Eitan Adler In-reply-to: Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:56:52 -0700 References: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.935.3) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: badly munged system X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:56:53 -0000 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