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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!oleane!jussieu.fr!math.ohio-state.edu!deshaw.com!christos From: christos@deshaw.com (Christos Zoulas) Subject: Re: Major panic with ffs partitions Message-ID: <Dt9L7H.56u@deshaw.com> Sender: usenet@deshaw.com Nntp-Posting-Host: deshaw.com Organization: D. E. Shaw & Co. References: <1996Jun19.125026.4576@hobbit> Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 20:35:41 GMT Lines: 29 In article <1996Jun19.125026.4576@hobbit> copley1@marshall.edu (Ronald Copley) writes: >Major panic time, folks. All the data has disappeared off one of my >partitions (the /home one). Here's what I have: > >root:/root:128$ df >Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on >/dev/wd0a 29199 12172 15567 44% / >/dev/wd0e 39023 669 36402 2% /var >/dev/wd0f 585582 288173 268129 52% /usr >/dev/wd1c 497235 170795 301578 36% /home/mue57.marshall.edu >/dev/wd1g 497235 0 472373 0% /mnt > >However, whenever I change to /home/mue57.marshall.edu and do this: >root:/home/mue57.marshall.edu:132$ ls -la >total 3 >drwxr-xr-x 12 root wheel 512 Jun 14 23:46 ./ >drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Apr 29 19:07 ../ > >What the hell is going on here? The only thing I've done is mount the >/dev/wd1g on /mnt and newfs it. Then, all my user accounts disappear, >along with all of my research data and projects! Major panic time. If >anyone can help in *any* way, please do and accept my sincerest thanks!! I suspect 1c partition is the whole disk (traditionally) I suspect that your disktab entry for wd1 is wrong and 'c' and 'g' overlap. Sorry, you just newfs'ed your disk and your data is gone. Strings on the raw device for the ascii files... christos