Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 21:32:11 -0400 (EDT) From: BEAUPRE Antoine <beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 2nd stupidiest thing I could ever do. Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.96.981011211454.3347A-100000@derby.jsp.umontreal.ca> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9810111759490.2942-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
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Great, I think I'll get over this catastrophy. More below... On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, Jason C. Wells wrote: > On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, BEAUPRE Antoine wrote: > >Believe it or not, I just did newfs /dev/wd0s2 . wd0s2 is where FreeBSD is > >on my system... Now the root partition is gone, and I only hope that the > >others are still there... I think so because newfs took about one or 2 > > I just saw this. There may be more you can do. > > The other filesystems should still be there. Are you certain that you did > not newfs /dev/wd0s2c (the entire slice) ? I remember clearly having typed "newfs /dev/wd0s2",I mismatched a 4 for a 2. (aaaaargh! Never run as root kids!) Not quite sure. But as I said, the output of newfs was obvious: it may have removed the / partition, but surely didn't have time to get to the others. Maybe it just remove the entries of the /usr, /var and /proc partitions... > Do you have the source on your system? If so, it is in /usr/src. You can > reinstall source if you can just get a bootable kernel. You will need some > build tools. I don't know if boot.flp has cc and such. Hmmm. I tried the install floppy and the only shell I was able to have was the "emergency holographic shell". But maybe the fixit floppy should have these kinda tools. Maybe someone could send me some binaries? My system is a 227Release. If so, what should/could be included in the panic floppy? (my try: -ppp -mount -ls -sh? -cc/gcc -make? -??? I may need a lota stuff from /bin and /sbin... If I can only get to mount /usr, it will be all right (i hope!). > When re-newfsing the root partition ensure that it does not run into the > next partition. Good! > Have you done a recent "make world"? If so, all of your binarries are > already there. You can just do "make installworld" with out building. Damn. I _made_ a make world recently... But I removed /usr/obj!!! (Is that where the binaries are?) I was managing disk space, and moving some stuff around, particularly making a new partition, hence the newfs... But the make world was fast enough... :) > Maybe I am stretching, but you should be able to get that partition back > without clobbering the others. If you can get the right compile tools you > can pull off a 'make world' to reinstall. What exactly will I need? > (I have never done any of this. :) Here is a grain of salt. ) No problem. I'm fresh out of options right now, I'll take this grain. :) Thanks! +-----------------------------------+ | Free the world from businessmen | | Free yourself from your money | +-----------------------------------+ Free the web. Spidey visit: http://www.JSP.UMontreal.CA/~beaupran To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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