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From: "Bruce Ellis" <bruce.ellis@gma...>
Subject: Re: [9fans] How to read fossil+venti partition without venti
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:21:59 +1000

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