FIXING VN AND CCD DEVICES ON HEAD! Re: HEADS up on HEAD

YONETANI Tomokazu qhwt+dfly at les.ath.cx
Sat May 19 16:06:37 PDT 2007


On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 02:54:07PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :As you expected, my ccd partitions(/var/obj and /home) no longer mount.
> :Do I need to dump & restore filesystems on a ccd device after the changes
> :to ccd device?
> 
>     Ok.  They can be recovered if you haven't overwritten anything or if you
>     only tried to do an fdisk on it but otherwise did not create or edit
>     the disklabels.

Well, new ccd wouldn't let me make any changes, and I can access these
filesystems when I boot from 1.8, so that should be OK :)

>     Here's what you have to do.

[detailed instruction]

>     If your CCD or VN mount was using an MBR before, then no changes are
>     needed.. it should just work.  I will note that most people using CCD
>     and VN will NOT have been using an MBR.
> 
>     Please tell me if these steps work.  Hopefully you didn't already
>     reformat your ccd :-)

OK, I'll let you know later.
Thanks.





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