Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 10:11:38 -0500 From: "Jaime Bozza" <jbozza@thinkburst.com> To: <doug@allensystemconsultants.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: RE: boot with dirty filesystem? Message-ID: <070501c35dbf$5dbd4e50$6401010a@bozza> In-Reply-To: <20030808074942.21306.h008.c011.wm@mail.allensystemconsultants.com.criticalpath.net>
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> My question is there a way to force the machine to boot with a dirty > filesystem, so that I can pull data from /etc to move to a new disk? > Barring that, is there still a procedure to force the system to boot, > update the inodes with whatever information it can find, and mark the > other files as unreadable? Use -f to force the mount. Depending on how bad the fs corruption is, you may be able to get pretty much everything you need. Jaime Bozza
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