Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2010 10:38:00 -0400 From: Greg Larkin <glarkin@FreeBSD.org> To: Mike Barnard <mike.barnardq@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: /usr/local empty after upgrade Message-ID: <4C333FC8.20802@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimVWQ2MpV6C5BlgjYxb0Cv9NqgAxrPDZRbL8lCT@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTimVWQ2MpV6C5BlgjYxb0Cv9NqgAxrPDZRbL8lCT@mail.gmail.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mike Barnard wrote: > Hi All, > > I have never encountered anything like this before and I am little puzzled. > After upgrading my FreeBSD 8.0 RELEASE, I ended up with FreeBSD > 8.1-PRERELEASE and an empty /usr/local directory. It wiped out my /usr/local > directory! I did nothing out of the usual on this upgrade. Any one > experienced the same thing? How do I safely get /usr/local populated again? > > > Hi Mike, It's possible that your disk device names changed during the upgrade and /etc/fstab can no longer mount the previous device on /usr/local. Do you see any error messages during the boot process? Please reply to the list with the output from the following commands: ls -l /dev/da* # Assuming SCSI disks ls -l /dev/ad* # Assuming ATA disks cat /etc/fstab That information may help figure out what happened to the devices during the upgrade. Regards, Greg - -- Greg Larkin http://www.FreeBSD.org/ - The Power To Serve http://www.sourcehosting.net/ - Ready. Set. Code. http://twitter.com/sourcehosting/ - Follow me, follow you -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFMMz/I0sRouByUApARAtS0AJ9Ny8rx0AcIen2o5fiJAQTn04ugKQCglxei L7dLVcqJbKqB/B9pc3v1fWM= =AGrW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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