Edwin,
Boot the server single user, -s. Then if you need to, bring up the IP
stack manually. Depending on your mount points, booting single user only
mounts root, so you can try to fsck the other unmounted filesystems. Only
if those file systems are readable will you be able to get your files off.
You can also try tar'ing files to floppy or other removeable drive you may
have on the server. Not a great solution, but it may be all you can do.
-Derek
At 08:12 PM 3/20/2006, Edwin D. Vinas wrote:
Hi,
After a power outage my FreeBSD-4.10 server's 40GB HDD had many
fragmentations and no matter how I repeatedly do "fsck", the errors saying
"hard error reading fsbn" are still there. I tried doing fsck over and over
but it seems this is already a hardware error and can no longer be
corrected. So my goal now is to recover my files!
First, I did a "mount -a" and was able to copy some of important files but I
have more data which I need to backup which I thought would only be possible
if I can make the server boot and make it work at least with TCP/IP so I can
transfer data to the other PCs in the LAN. But, after "mount -a", I edited
the fstab to set mounts to "frw" to force mount all drives and not give me
those "hard error reading fsbn". So, I rebooted the machine, only to find
out that after it mounted all partitions the the "/usr/libexec/getty"
something can't be found or executed for ttys and its giving me unending
errors. And there it goes, I can no longer access my filesystem because it
hangs or doesn't have a terminal when the machine is about to finish
booting. There is no prompt anymore, all I can see are the getty errors. If
only I can edit fstab back without "f" option, I can still manually copy my
files to a USB.
Is there anyway to still recover my files? Is there a way I can edit fstab
to remove "f" option so I can't have those getty errors? Or is it possible
to mount the server's HDD in another FreeBSD machine?
Thanks.
Ed
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