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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
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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