From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <4042B3E6-0CA3-44FF-A78D-73ED333E393D@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Pietro Gagliardi Subject: Re: [9fans] Corrupted file entry on QEMU - how to recover? Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 20:57:56 -0500 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1b0b9f04-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 I have no venti partition, and venti/conf asks for one called v.arenas. The reason was that the default configuration of the installer only gave fossil 700MB and venti/arenas 3GB. I wasn't sure that would be sufficient for my files :-) On Dec 16, 2007, at 8:42 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > On Sun Dec 16 20:37:03 EST 2007, pietro10@mac.com wrote: >> And now it still says it can't open the file system. What's wrong >> with checking the raw data? I don't want to lose my files, and >> nothing seems to work without calling fsOpen. > > fossil is just a write buffer. if fossil thinks it's been written to > venti, then fossil would have no access without a venti server. > > so it would seem to me that the simplist explination for this is > that although you think you haven't configured venti, somehow > it was. > > do you have a venti paritition? also the output of venti/conf > would be helpful. > > - erik