Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 12:40:16 -0500 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: Keith Simonsen <bangel@elite.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: advice on recovering data from messed up drive... Message-ID: <20000401124016.A28346@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000331213319.17277A-100000@lemon.elite.net>; from bangel@elite.net on Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 09:37:52PM -0800 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000331213319.17277A-100000@lemon.elite.net>
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On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 09:37:52PM -0800, Keith Simonsen wrote: > Hi, > > Just thought I'd ask for advice on this: > > I accidently ran the 'rawio' (/usr/ports/benchmarks/rawio) program on the > wrong drive, and it pretty much screwed up the whole drive. It's an 8gb > western digital, I am still fsck'ing it now. It's taken hours. > > I'm wondering if anyone knows any utilities that may help me recover some > of my data, or help repair the drive, fsck is having a very tough time, > and I'm having to do it manually with fsck sometimes (i've pressed 'y' > about 2000 times). Did you run, # fsck -y > The system is totaly unusable, none of my kernel's will > boot, the boot loader doesn't even run correctly. > > Thanks in advance for any advice... Looks like you just need to restore one of the backups that you do regularly. Of course, you'll lose anything between the error and the last backup, but that's life. Sounds like the filesystem is a complete loss. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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