Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 18:07:41 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> To: BEAUPRE Antoine <beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 2nd stupidiest thing I could ever do. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9810111759490.2942-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.96.981011161938.19300A-100000@derby.jsp.umontreal.ca>
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On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, BEAUPRE Antoine wrote: >Hi. > >Believe it or not, I just did newfs /dev/wd0s2 . wd0s2 is where FreeBSD is >on my system... Now the root partition is gone, and I only hope that the >others are still there... I think so because newfs took about one or 2 I just saw this. There may be more you can do. The other filesystems should still be there. Are you certain that you did not newfs /dev/wd0s2c (the entire slice) ? Do you have the source on your system? If so, it is in /usr/src. You can reinstall source if you can just get a bootable kernel. You will need some build tools. I don't know if boot.flp has cc and such. When re-newfsing the root partition ensure that it does not run into the next partition. Have you done a recent "make world"? If so, all of your binarries are already there. You can just do "make installworld" with out building. Maybe I am stretching, but you should be able to get that partition back without clobbering the others. If you can get the right compile tools you can pull off a 'make world' to reinstall. (I have never done any of this. :) Here is a grain of salt. ) Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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