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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!newscaster-1.mcast.net!cs.tu-berlin.de!loewis From: loewis@cs.tu-berlin.de (Martin v.Loewis) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: file system HELP HELP HELP Date: 13 Jul 1996 17:56:29 GMT Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4s8o0d$3gb@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> References: <31E6C1F4.6FB1@ucdavis.edu> <4s86ok$n33@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: cent.cs.tu-berlin.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <4s86ok$n33@uriah.heep.sax.de>, J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: >Your message looks rather confusing, and even after reading thrice, i >still don't know which data are lost, and how you're intending to >recover them. As far as I understand, he reformatted the partition that contained the user home directories, while leaving the system partition (/,swap,/usr) intact. He has a backup of the user homes, but non of the system files. Now the system refuses to boot. I would be interested to learn how far it boots, maybe it needs something from the now empty volume. If my understanding is correct, no re-installation should be necessary. Regards, Martin