From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 10 12:10:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA05533 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 12:10:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-4.mail.demon.net (relay-4.mail.demon.net [158.152.1.108]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA05520 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 12:10:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([158.152.1.72]) by relay-4.mail.demon.net id aw23420; 10 Jun 96 19:01 GMT Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa12019; 10 Jun 96 18:14 +0100 Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.7.5/8.6.12) id NAA07792; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 13:17:24 GMT Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 13:17:24 GMT Message-Id: <199606101317.NAA07792@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: James Raynard To: xiyuan@npc.haplink.co.cn CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, steve@cioeserv.cioe.com In-reply-to: <199606101053.KAA06770@npc.haplink.co.cn> (message from xiyuan qian on Mon, 10 Jun 1996 10:53:23 GMT) Subject: Re: Urgent! Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Hi, one of my important host runnig under FreeBSD2.1.0-release suddenly showed "syncing disk 4 3 3 2 2 1" and reboot after 15 seconds, but it can NOT reboot just halt at: > Boot: The root file system needs cleaning, but you can't clean it until you've booted... 8-( > How can I fix it, with fixit.flp disk???. Boot with the installation disk, and select the item from the menu that says "use fixit floppy" (or words to that effect). > How can I get some important files from the disk that I have no backup??? If you have another FreeBSD machine that you can take down for a few minutes, the simplest way is to put the disk in the other machine, mount whichever partition has your data on and copy it over. (You may need to run fsck on the partition first). -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk jraynard@FreeBSD.ORG