From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 21 20:57:16 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 8303016A47A for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 20:57:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sven.hazejager@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.177]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D11B543D45 for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 20:57:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sven.hazejager@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id x31so72274pye for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 13:57:10 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=J+1avrSuzsxHKd3hz1k8pw8Ujr8qOFtyPQ/eOcbYKA48H5uOQ3osToMBRnTichWcXhkTYDtboVxLh4kxWCJnCE+kQT4+O5m7JSTZInQLGDw7J/zDTScXbbf5nb5IHzTmxkS6AV4bJu/vlkkp//abUAbcdeg5GkTHkOXbfO/v/DQ= Received: by 10.35.106.15 with SMTP id i15mr288327pym; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 13:57:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.123.3 with HTTP; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 13:57:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 22:57:09 +0200 From: "Sven Hazejager" To: "Eric Anderson" , freebsd-fs@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <4499B011.4010408@centtech.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <4499B011.4010408@centtech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: 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 20:57:16 -0000 On 6/21/06, Eric Anderson wrote: > > Sven Hazejager wrote: > > 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? Found the problem! User error! I edited /etc/fstab on 6.1 manually and made a typo... instead of /usr/home I was mounting a spare, empty partition that I did not remember was on the disk... ;-) Thank you all for reading! Sven