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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!newsgate.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-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: Hardware or misconfig causes file system not to mount. Date: 9 Jul 1996 07:18:02 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 30 Message-ID: <4rt13a$4fl@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4rg6fo$6ul@nntp.igs.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 cskinner@bml.ca (Chris K. Skinner) wrote: > I navigated to a directory or two and did ls, then I accidentally > typed pwdd<enter> and then the machine > spontaneously rebooted on me after a five second delay, and > now I've got the situation that it says that fsck says > that the /dev devices for most of my file system > components cannot be stat'ed or some such. > > What's my next step after removing that Ram SIMM in order to > make the files on my disk accessible again? Restore from tape. Short of having backups, reinstall the machine. You might try to resurrect the missing /dev entries by running /dev/MAKEDEV, but there's supposedly much more damaged on your root file system, so this might only help you to get the system into a state where you can just backup a few data that are not yet on tape, in preparation of a new installation. (Ah, my backup just finished. :) -- 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. ;-)