Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 08:51:00 -0500 (CDT) From: mhughes@logroad.bridge.com (Michael Hughes) To: doug@footech.com (Doug Jolley) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: damaged / filesystem Message-ID: <199810151351.IAA19845@logroad.bridge.com> In-Reply-To: <199810150250.TAA23980@srv01.bigwheel.net> from "Doug Jolley" at Oct 14, 98 07:50:54 pm
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Doug, Try doing fsck -o b=<alternate super block>. This should do the job. Doug Jolley said in email to me: > > As a result of a power failure, I now have a damaged root > filesystem. The system seems to think all the inodes have > been used. I've run fsck; but, it doesn't seem to fix the > problem. There is very little in the root file system. > (Most everything is in the /var and /usr file systems.) > I have the root file system fully backed up; and, even if > that were not the case, I could easily make a backup copy > of the contents. My question is: How can I rebuild the > root filesystem so that I can eliminate this problem? > Thanks for any input. > > ... doug > _____________________________________________________________________ > Doug Jolley mailto://doug@footech.com http://www.footech.com > Don't bogart that file, my friend. Net it over to me. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _ _ _ _ _ , Loghome living is the ' ) ) ) / // ' ) / / best ! / / / o _. /_ __. _ // /--/ . . _, /_ _ _ / ' (_<_(__/ /_(_/|_</_</_ / (_(_/_(_)_/ /_</_/_)_ Bridge Information Systems, Inc. /| St Louis MO |/ mhughes@bridge.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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