From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:35:34 +0200 From: John Soros To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] thrashed / In-Reply-To: References: <46f35c59.13395e0a.591c.ffffa6a2@mx.google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <46f3d6b9.12054e0a.1668.7cc0@mx.google.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: c34eabe4-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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