Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 08:40:25 +0200 From: "Valentin Bud" <valentin.bud@gmail.com> To: "Reinis Ivanovs" <dabas@untu.ms> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reversing a ZFS mistake Message-ID: <139b44430812012240r7f978643o86c3a80b51b22582@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5b826e210812011636l71dc6d05n25a14acdd24b396d@mail.gmail.com> References: <5b826e210812011636l71dc6d05n25a14acdd24b396d@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 2:36 AM, Reinis Ivanovs <dabas@untu.ms> wrote: > Hello, > > It seems I've made a mistake using ZFS, and now my /usr/local/ is > empty. I wanted to create a snapshot of a directory inside of it, so I > ran "zfs create tank/usr/local" and "zfs create tank/usr/local/www" as Maybe it's just a typo but "zfs create" actually creates a file system (data set), doesn't do a snapshot of a certain directory. > I had seen in the guides I'd been using. That worked, but the > filesystems created were empty. As I found out later, doing what I did > on Solaris would have created the filesystems but not mounted them, > but on FreeBSD they were mounted automatically, and the previous > contents hidden. The question now is, how do I get my files back? The > system is crippled without /usr/local/ and I can't unmount or destroy > it, because it says that the device is busy. Any help would be > appreciated. > > R. > > -- > http://untu.ms/ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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