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- From: adam@micromuse.co.uk (Adam Kerrison)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: 386BSD - Filesystem Trashed !!
- Message-ID: <BuAyF8.Bvs@micromuse.co.uk>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 08:33:08 GMT
- Sender: news@micromuse.co.uk
- Reply-To: adam@micromuse.co.uk
- Organization: MicroMuse Ltd, London, Uk
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- Oh No !! I have trashed my 386BSD partitions (note the plural)
-
- I was trying to get X386 to work. I ran xdm and the system hangs (with a
- blank graphics screen). So hit the reset, wait for the boot up, watch the
- fsck for bad bits in the filesystem .... whats this - NO errors at all ?
-
- I just thought I was lucky. So, once the machine was up into
- /usr/X386/lib/X11/xdm and read the xdm-errors - oopps no video timing in
- Xconfig so changed to ../etc and read the XConfog.notes files with more.
-
- After and bit of reading (backwards and forwards) more suddenly exited in
- mid document and gave me a prompt. I tried the more again and got a 'no such
- file' type of error.
-
- ls revealed all the filenames where scrambled - every other letter a ? character.
- I then changed to / and did ls - oh dear .... I got a panic: bad dir and corrupted
- node messages and the machine crashed.
-
- After that I tryed to reboot but the disk wouldn't access, the machine would only
- use the a: drive. In desperation - I went to bed !
-
- This morning however, I tryed the fixit floppy and manually run fsck on 3 of
- my partitions - no errors at all. I checked the disklabel - fine. So I tryed a
- reboot - and hey presto ! One BSD system, working fine !
-
- Help me people ! What is going on ? Do I have a dodgy disk/controller ?? In there
- a bug in the filesystem (or in more !!) or was it a glitch ??!!
-
- Any ideas would be helpful - I don't want to go though that again !!!!!
-
- Thanks
-
- Adam
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