Help! EMPTY filesystem after 4.11 to 6.1 upgrade

[Eric Anderson]

Sven Hazejager wrote:
> Hi all! [please ignore double-post; haven't received a confirmation 
> after 30
> mins]
> 
> 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...


So the fsck passes?  Can you send some information like how you upgraded 
(binary, cvs, etc), and possibly some df's from before and after you 
mount the partition?


Eric



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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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