Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 08:47:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Dave Banning <sky_tracker@yahoo.com> To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hard drive mount points damaged - reinstall to fix? Message-ID: <20030825154709.76312.qmail@web12811.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <44vfss19i8.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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> > > > Is there a way to overwrite the /dev entries and mount points on the > damaged > > drive, reinstall system files, but still preserve my user data? > > I guess you could boot a fixit disk, mount your hard drive on it, and > then rebuild... Except I couldn't mount. There was too many errors on the drive. What I -was- able to do was first fix the slices, first with "fsck -b 32" and then with simply "fsck". I was not able to reinstall again. Perhaps there is some permanent damage to the drive. I -was- able to copy all important data to a new drive. "Whew!". __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
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