disk recovery problem(s)
Robert Huff
roberthuff at rcn.com
Fri Feb 6 19:27:06 PST 2009
Roland Smith writes:
> > huff@>> fsck /dev/da3a
> > ** /dev/da3a
> > ** Last Mounted on /backup
> > ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes
> > ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames
> > ROOT INODE UNALLOCATED
> > ALLOCATE? [yn]
> >
> > a) what's probably happened?
>
> Error messages are explained in Appendix A of
> /usr/share/doc/smm/03.fsck/paper.ascii.gz
>
> Unfortunately it says that this error "should never happen". :-/
>
> Answer y, and all directorys and files found in the root will
> appear in lost+found, unless the attempt to allocate the root
> inode fails..
Thank you.
That worked ... sort of.
Robert Huff
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