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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!theos.com!riscan.riscan.com!n1van.istar!van.istar!west.istar!uniserve!news.sol.net!newspump.sol.net!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: please HELP: started newfs on wrong drive! Date: 9 Jul 1996 06:50:03 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 34 Message-ID: <4rsver$4fl@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4re0df$l3h@fu-berlin.de> 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 thimm@physik.fu-berlin.de (Axel Thimm) wrote: > I launched newfs /dev/wd0c instead of /dev/wd2c, ... Yeah, i've also got this twice when trying to newfs a floppy. :-] Back in the old 386BSD 0.1.2.4 days though... > cannot get into this anymore! Is there something I can do to save my > system? Restore from your backup tape. Sorry, no better solution available. If you still remember the exact figures of your disklabel, you might resurrect the label, and the not yet affected partitions (assuming you've been typing the ^C quick enough so that only the root f/s is damaged). Together with the fixit floppy, you might perhaps be able to backup interesting data, and reinstall from scratch. Though shalt dump your disks regularly. Though shalt dump your disks regularly. Though shalt dump your disks regularly. ... (...quickly mounting the backup tape for the long overdue / file system where my /etc/daily used to complain for quite some time now. :-) -- 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. ;-)