From: "Bruce Ellis" <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] How to read fossil+venti partition without venti
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:21:59 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <775b8d190804222021x1935623k29003bbbc3b43b3f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5049A218-A739-4CC0-89EE-D05AB851506A@mac.com>
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com> wrote:
> Hello. I'm trying to recover my files from the fossil+venti system I have. I
> changed the configuration to read
>
> fsys oldfs config /dev/sdC1/fossil
> fsys oldfs open -AWPVr
> srv fossil
>
> then do
>
> fossil/fossil -f /dev/sdC1/fossil
> mount /srv/fossil /n/oldfs oldfs
>
> but when I try to get to /n/oldfs/active/usr/pietro/lib/profile, venti spits
> out an error talking about "wrong score: not connected to venti." Is there a
> way to get my files back without connecting to venti? When it tries to
> connect to venti, I get an error saying that service isn't found.
>
> Thanks.
your data is on your venti, so no dice.
copy the venti partion (and fossil, if it's synced and quiescent) to
somewhere would be a good start with a really screwed up scenario.
brucee
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-23 3:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-23 1:48 Pietro Gagliardi
2008-04-23 3:21 ` Bruce Ellis [this message]
2008-04-23 20:57 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-04-23 22:01 ` Steve Simon
2008-04-23 8:52 ` Steve Simon
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