Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 15:46:09 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Sven Hazejager <sven.hazejager@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help! EMPTY filesystem after 4.11 to 6.1 upgrade Message-ID: <4499B011.4010408@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <cbdeb7680606211324p2185d8e9m13bec7dd4781304a@mail.gmail.com> References: <cbdeb7680606211324p2185d8e9m13bec7dd4781304a@mail.gmail.com>
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Sven Hazejager wrote: > Hi all! [please ignore double-post; haven't received a confirmation > after 30 > mins] > > I have quite a big problem here.... > > I've upgraded my FreeBSD 4.11 to 6.1. Basically, I did a newfs of / and > /usr > and reinstalled from scratch. That worked. > > Rebooted in 6.1 single user mode, mounted /, /usr and /usr/home. The latter > I did not touch and I need to save that partition. /usr/home had all the > files it needed to have. PROBLEM: mount said soft-updates were not set on > /usr/home. So I did umount /usr/home, tunefs -n enable /usr/home, mount > /usr/home again... EMPTY!!!! > > What has gone wrong? I did fsck (in read-only), no problems, rebooted the > system, did tunefs -n disable, still no luck. I really need those files > guys... So the fsck passes? Can you send some information like how you upgraded (binary, cvs, etc), and possibly some df's from before and after you mount the partition? Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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