From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 5 18:44:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA26111 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 5 Jul 1996 18:44:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-4.mail.demon.net (relay-4.mail.demon.net [158.152.1.108]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA26105 for ; Fri, 5 Jul 1996 18:43:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([158.152.1.72]) by relay-4.mail.demon.net id ac19086; 6 Jul 96 1:43 GMT Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa09917; 5 Jul 96 18:11 +0100 Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id RAA01856; Fri, 5 Jul 1996 17:09:03 GMT Date: Fri, 5 Jul 1996 17:09:03 GMT Message-Id: <199607051709.RAA01856@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: James Raynard To: lerland@icrt.demon.co.uk CC: questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: (lerland@icrt.demon.co.uk) Subject: Re: Help: FreeBSD 2.1 'mount' fails on 2.0 SCSI partition Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Lars G. Erlandsen" writes: [Very lengthy explanation elided] If I understand correctly, the problem is something like this:- wd0 DOS slice, FreeBSD-2.1.0 root partition sd0 not relevant here sd1 dedicated FreeBSD-2.0 disk with a trashed root partition, but a /usr partition with valuable data in it. System will boot off FreeBSD partition on wd0, but on attempting to mount /dev/sd1s1d, gives errors about "overlapping partitions" and mounts the trashed root partition instead! How to recover data from /usr? I don't really know what to suggest here - I remember seeing someone posting about an FTP site with 2.0 and 2.0.5 on it, but I don't have the details any more. Anyone else? -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/