Hi, I think I'm really screwed.

When I tried the machine this morning, did "ll /" and about half the files
were non-existent(!) - the names were there, but no contents.  This is on wd0.
I didn't write anything to wd0  (unless being so tired that I accidentally
did some disklabel operation on wd0, but...).

So I rebooted the machine, and it wouldn't boot!  Says "NO OPERATING SYSTEM" so
I shove in the install floppy, and try to boot wd0a - it says "no disklabel" !

In single-user mode, disklabel wd0 yields no a nor b partition, but c,d,e are
there.  

I don't see how I screwed up this box, but I'd like to get the wd0 disk up
(specifically wd0e) so I can ftp off the important stuff.  

Unless there is some easy way to fix this?

Thanks again, -Mike


On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Frederick Bruckman wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Mike Cheponis wrote:
> 
> > In an attempt to use up all the space, but "disklabel -R -r wd1 foo" yields:
> >
> > ioctl DIOCWLABEL: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> > ioctl DIOCWLABEL: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> 
> You're trying to initialize the "raw" label, but the disk already
> has a label. Try to "write enable" the in-core label first, and then
> operate on that:
> 
>   disklabel -W wd1
>   disklabel -R wd1 foo
>   disklabel -N wd1
> 
> 
> Frederick
>