Re: Salvage files from harddrive

2010-08-03 Thread David Cross
FreeBSD 6.2 didn't use volume labels the same way that 7 and above do; and even then only if you specifically label the filesystems, and even then you can get to the filesystems with the 'bus' methods (which is what you need to do in 6.2 anyway) On your system that you have access to /var in s

Re: Salvage files from harddrive

2010-01-19 Thread Christoph Kukulies
Your computers date/time is wrong. It's dated in the future. -- Christoph jeffry killen schrieb: Thank you in advance for guidance, suggestions. JK ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-qu

Re: Salvage files from harddrive

2009-12-29 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 04:07:51AM -0700, jeffry killen wrote: > I have a hard drive that contains the /var file system in a system that > will not boot. > In single user mode I can mount /var. > > I want to take this disk and put it in another FreeBSD system and > try to copy the files I need of

Re: Salvage files from harddrive

2009-11-03 Thread RW
On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 20:50:39 -0400 jhell wrote: > If you can mount this disk in single user mode your best bet to be > safe is just glabel it to something else that your second system is > not before you take the disk out of the machine. > > Even though I don't think it should/would be a problem

Re: Salvage files from harddrive

2009-10-22 Thread tomasz dereszynski
jeffry killen wrote: Hello; I have a hard drive that contains the /var file system in a system that will not boot. In single user mode I can mount /var. I want to take this disk and put it in another FreeBSD system and try to copy the files I need off of it to a safe place. The system I will p

Re: Salvage files from harddrive

2009-10-06 Thread jhell
On Fri, 7 Oct 2011 04:07 -0700, jekillen@ wrote: Hello; I have a hard drive that contains the /var file system in a system that will not boot. In single user mode I can mount /var. I want to take this disk and put it in another FreeBSD system and try to copy the files I need off of it to a

Re: Salvage files from harddrive

2009-10-06 Thread jhell
On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 16:14 -0800, lists@ wrote: On Fri, 07 Oct 2011, jeffry killen wrote: Hello; I have a hard drive that contains the /var file system in a system that will not boot. In single user mode I can mount /var. I want to take this disk and put it in another FreeBSD system and try

Re: Salvage files from harddrive

2009-10-06 Thread Henrik Hudson
On Fri, 07 Oct 2011, jeffry killen wrote: > Hello; > I have a hard drive that contains the /var file system in a system that > will not boot. > In single user mode I can mount /var. > > I want to take this disk and put it in another FreeBSD system and > try to copy the files I need off of it to

Salvage files from harddrive

2009-10-06 Thread jeffry killen
Hello; I have a hard drive that contains the /var file system in a system that will not boot. In single user mode I can mount /var. I want to take this disk and put it in another FreeBSD system and try to copy the files I need off of it to a safe place. The system I will plug it into will also