HELP! Filesystem EMPTY after upgrade from 4.11 to 6.1

[Martin Tournoy]

On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 20:06:38 -0000, Sven Hazejager  
<sven.hazejager at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> I have quite a big problem here....
>
> 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...
>
> Please help urgently.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Sven Hazejager

4.11 uses UFS1, 6.1 UFS2, there might be some conflict there...

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