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Greetings again !

Thanks to all for previous help.

Running ODT3.0, [I have OSR5 & UnixWare but have been running ODT for
some time and will continue to] I installed
root fs = 500M and /u = 2Gig.
All was well, but I erred and root was thereby corrupted.

After using sysadmsh to restore a tape [cpio] I have root back but no /u
filesystem.

Is there a means of attempting to restore the former /u ?

If not, how do I make a new one, bearing in mind that divvy shows it to
still exist but df is ignorant of it's existence ? I mistakenly thought
sysadmsh-->backup had backed up /u, but apparently not.

As a consequence of........

 fsck /u   ---> /tmp/fs.LOG    

contains info about not being able to read/seek a series of BLKs that
apparently are missing, and a comment about a BAD FREE LIST and then
fsck attempts to salvage.

I will be glad to attempt the de* or any other suggestion to save
the situation if I can get sage advice.

[I have since gotten lone-tar but that doesn't help at the moment.]

Appreciatively,

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It sounds as if /u is not mounted.  As root try:

mount [/u special file] /u

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Quote:>Greetings again !

>Thanks to all for previous help.

>Running ODT3.0, [I have OSR5 & UnixWare but have been running ODT for
>some time and will continue to] I installed
>root fs = 500M and /u = 2Gig.
>All was well, but I erred and root was thereby corrupted.

>After using sysadmsh to restore a tape [cpio] I have root back but no /u
>filesystem.

>Is there a means of attempting to restore the former /u ?

>If not, how do I make a new one, bearing in mind that divvy shows it to
>still exist but df is ignorant of it's existence ? I mistakenly thought
>sysadmsh-->backup had backed up /u, but apparently not.

......

I don't know exactly what happend or what you did/doing....
but it seems like you don't have a filesystem /u defined
just because you can see a "u" defined under divvy does not mean you'll
have a /u directory..
make sure you have a "/dev/u" (which seems like you do from the "fsck")

try mounting it, "mkdir /u", "mount /dev/u /u" if this works, go ahead and
unmount it, then use sysadmsh->filesystem (I think) then create a file
system /u

Hope this helps

Later
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Quote:

>>Greetings again !

>>Thanks to all for previous help.

>>Running ODT3.0, [I have OSR5 & UnixWare but have been running ODT for
>>some time and will continue to] I installed
>>root fs = 500M and /u = 2Gig.
>>All was well, but I erred and root was thereby corrupted.

[snip]

Quote:

>I don't know exactly what happend or what you did/doing....
>but it seems like you don't have a filesystem /u defined
>just because you can see a "u" defined under divvy does not mean you'll
>have a /u directory..
>make sure you have a "/dev/u" (which seems like you do from the "fsck")

>try mounting it, "mkdir /u", "mount /dev/u /u" if this works, go ahead and
>unmount it, then use sysadmsh->filesystem (I think) then create a file
>system /u

Hi !

Good suggestions to which I dare to add the following: when you
run "divvy", take note of the division number under which your
/u filesystem is defined (on a machine here in our labs, this
number is 4). Next, lookup the "hd(HW)" man page and look
for the following table:

--------------------------------------------
            Bits
7  6  5  4  3  2  1  0   Description
--------------------------------------------
X  X  -  -  -  -  -  -   disk # (0-3)
-  -  X  X  X  -  -  -   partition # (1-4)
-  -  -  -  -  X  X  X   division # (0-6)
-  -  X  X  X  1  1  1   whole partition
-  -  0  0  0  0  0  0   whole physical disk
-  -  1  0  1  -  -  -   active partition
-  -  1  1  0  -  -  -   DOS partition
-  -  1  1  0  X  X  X   DOS drive (C-J)

Your /dev/u should have a minor number of 43,
(00101011bin) which means:

00              (disk #0 - if it's on the primary)
    101         (active partition)
          011   (division number 4)

So if you don't have it, "mknod /dev/u b 1 43" and
"mount /dev/u /u" and you'll be fine.

Hope this helps !

Best,
Roberto

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Thanks so much to all for help !

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