Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 22:57:09 +0200 From: "Sven Hazejager" <sven.hazejager@gmail.com> To: "Eric Anderson" <anderson@centtech.com>, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help! EMPTY filesystem after 4.11 to 6.1 upgrade Message-ID: <cbdeb7680606211357s12670ed1q431aeb2f6e573acd@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4499B011.4010408@centtech.com> References: <cbdeb7680606211324p2185d8e9m13bec7dd4781304a@mail.gmail.com> <4499B011.4010408@centtech.com>
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On 6/21/06, Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> wrote: > > Sven Hazejager wrote: > > I've upgraded my FreeBSD 4.11 to 6.1. Basically, I did a newfs of / and > > /usr > > and reinstalled from scratch. That worked. > > > > Rebooted in 6.1 single user mode, mounted /, /usr and /usr/home. The > latter > > I did not touch and I need to save that partition. /usr/home had all the > > files it needed to have. PROBLEM: mount said soft-updates were not set > on > > /usr/home. So I did umount /usr/home, tunefs -n enable /usr/home, mount > > /usr/home again... EMPTY!!!! > > > > What has gone wrong? I did fsck (in read-only), no problems, rebooted > the > > system, did tunefs -n disable, still no luck. I really need those files > > guys... > > > So the fsck passes? Can you send some information like how you upgraded > (binary, cvs, etc), and possibly some df's from before and after you > mount the partition? Found the problem! User error! I edited /etc/fstab on 6.1 manually and made a typo... instead of /usr/home I was mounting a spare, empty partition that I did not remember was on the disk... ;-) Thank you all for reading! Sven
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