From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 21 20:46:02 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61E3516A47A for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 20:46:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from mh1.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3BB843D46 for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 20:45:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [10.177.171.220] (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by mh1.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k5LKjvQA078630; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 15:45:57 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <4499B011.4010408@centtech.com> Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 15:46:09 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060612) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sven Hazejager References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.87.1/1559/Wed Jun 21 09:23:13 2006 on mh1.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help! EMPTY filesystem after 4.11 to 6.1 upgrade X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 20:46:02 -0000 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------