From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 27 4:25:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from doc.dcoder.com (doc.dcoder.com [207.96.1.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E5211517F for ; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 04:25:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dacoder@dcoder.com) Received: from doc.dcoder.com (doc.dcoder.com [207.96.1.117]) by doc.dcoder.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id HAA07946; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 07:24:48 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dacoder@dcoder.com) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 07:24:48 -0400 (EDT) From: David Coder Reply-To: David Coder To: Mark Newton Cc: Alex , doogie@anet-stl.com, dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: file disappeared? In-Reply-To: <199904270007.JAA01090@gizmo.internode.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG And next time you have a big file you want to get rid of, cp /dev/null foo, then rm foo. dc -------------------------- David Coder NOC Op Erols Internet Service/RCN On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Mark Newton wrote: :Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 09:37:42 +0930 (CST) :From: Mark Newton :To: Alex :Cc: doogie@anet-stl.com, dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, : freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG :Subject: Re: file disappeared? : :Alex wrote: : : > The question is how badly did I screw things up by running fsck? : > (I think with -p it doesn't actually salvage anything, just checks the : > disk). : > Worth a reboot? : :Definitely: -p *does* salvage things. Boot to single user and run :fsck manually to make sure everything's ok. : : - mark : :---- :Mark Newton Email: newton@internode.com.au (W) :Network Engineer Email: newton@atdot.dotat.org (H) :Internode Systems Pty Ltd Desk: +61-8-82232999 :"Network Man" - Anagram of "Mark Newton" Mobile: +61-416-202-223 : : :To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org :with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message