From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) In-Reply-To: <46f3d6b9.12054e0a.1668.7cc0@mx.google.com> References: <46f35c59.13395e0a.591c.ffffa6a2@mx.google.com> <46f3d6b9.12054e0a.1668.7cc0@mx.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <3D5D73FA-91A1-483E-B4FE-7CB0FAABA0D1@york.ac.uk> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Abhey Shah Subject: Re: [9fans] thrashed / Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:21:03 +0100 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: c357aa50-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 no promises or guarantees, read the relevant man pages before doing this, there's probably a mistake in here somewhere venti/venti -h tcp!*!8000 -c /dev/sdC0/arenas dumpvacroots take one of the old venti scores and do fossil/flfmt -h $host -v $score /dev/sdC0/fossil reboot and pray On 21 Sep 2007, at 15:35, John Soros wrote: > yes, that might be an approach, just use venti...but what I'd like > to do is use the last fossil dump. > my machine is unbootable at the moment, since /bin and some other > stuff have been wiped off the harddisk. > There actually has been no filesystem damage. This can only be the > cause of my braindamage. > > What i think i need to do is: > boot from livecd > get venti running somehow > get fossil running with venti somehow > revert fossil to the last dump > reboot > > I am trying to find out how to do the venti and fossil steps... > Of course, if i'm wrong, please enlighten me, as i am still quite > ignorant of the inner workings of the system, fossil and venti. > > Thanks, though. > > > On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:11:03 +0100 > "Steve Simon" wrote: > >> I wrote a doc about how to recover from various disc failures: >> >> http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/steve/doc/Venti-rescue.pdf >> >> Alternatively you could just do: >> >> 9fs dump >> cp -gux /n/dump/2007/0901/386/bin/* /368/bin >> >> -Steve >