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Operating Systems HP-UX Recovering files from unbootable disk in HPUX 9 Post 302597555 by vbe on Friday 10th of February 2012 03:43:10 PM

02-10-2012

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An HP 715/100 in HP-UX9.XX would likely be a 9.05 (I did see some 9.07 but only at HP...) no lvm... it had something the series 800 did not have (9.04): a utility to generate a bootable tape... but serie 800 9.04 had LVM...
I suppose that if you are only trying to recover sensible data from the disk, forget about booting from it, try to connect as a second disk after creating a mount point, try to mount it and recover your files; then if it is the same disk as the station where you mounted it, you could after having saved all important configuration files and soft... do a dd to clone the disk and put it back in the original 715 then restore the correct configuration - all in single use mode...

Do you know why it is not booting? I did see one not being able because of 2-3 crashes the same day filling /tmp and / to 100%...
The solution was booting single user (or almost...) and use an option of fsck ( forgot what but it is for no sync ) by removing bad files rather than let them go in lost+found and try to reboot in a also no sync mode. Then once it reboots, trying to find out what you lost...
Good luck
Unfortunately Im on vacation next week, because I may have had some documentation in my draws at work...

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