disk recovery problem(s)

[Robert Huff]

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