Re: Recovering Trashed Filesystems

2009-08-03 Thread Crist J. Clark
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:00:46PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:46:50 -0700, Crist J. Clark cristcl...@comcast.net wrote: [snip] We see usr is messed up. And what I'd like to recover are files up in usr/local/etc. Now I can mount -r /dev/ad0s1a /mnt to get the above

Recovering Trashed Filesystems

2009-07-31 Thread Crist J. Clark
I have two file systems in very sad shape that I would like to retrieve some files from. I've net booted the sick box and can access the two bad UFSs. One file system, the root file system, isn't too bad off. However, the usr directory is messed up. I can do, # ls .cshrc boot

Re: Recovering Trashed Filesystems

2009-07-31 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:46:50 -0700, Crist J. Clark cristcl...@comcast.net wrote: But if I try look at the files (directories), # ls -l ls: lib: Bad file descriptor ls: usr: Bad file descriptor ls: var: Bad file descriptor Same here - allthough on a much more important place - my

Re: Recovering Trashed Filesystems

2009-07-31 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:46:50PM -0700, Crist J. Clark wrote: I have two file systems in very sad shape that I would like to retrieve some files from. I've net booted the sick box and can access the two bad UFSs. One file system, the root file system, isn't too bad off. However, the usr