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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Need your suggestions recovering partition Date: 5 Oct 1996 19:37:31 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <536ddr$ba@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <52rlik$qib@zip0.zipnet.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E kot@zipnet.net (Mikhail Teterin) wrote: > I would appreciate your help with recovery -- `fsck' is the only tool > I know. My back-up is month old :( Thanks for your time! Mikhail, you aren't new to the Unix world. You should have learnt since that in such a messed state as you are in now, a good backup is about the only hope you could have. Sorry, no better news. Use the `dumpcycle' feature in /etc/fstab to get regularly bothered by /etc/daily about those filesystems that are due to dump. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)