Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 09:51:36 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: zettel@acm.org (Leonard Zettel) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: restore Message-ID: <200503031451.j23Epbj16985@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <200503021317.13502.zettel@acm.org> from "Leonard Zettel" at Mar 02, 2005 01:17:13 PM
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> > > > Next, why did you try and mount /dev/ad0s1a and then newfs /dev/ad0s1a > > > > That should not work at all. You don't newfs a mounted partition. > > > > > > Gee, I didn't know that. It wasn't clear when I read the handbook > > > or man pages. May give me something new to try-- > > > > That is probably your main problem. > > > Doing the newfs on the unmounted partition worked the way I > expected it to. > Once more, thanks to all. Good that it now works. It is often some minor seeming thing that looms large when it is not right. ////jerry > -LenZ- >
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