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Date:      Fri, 15 Aug 1997 01:26:10 -0700
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        "Steve Hearn" <Steve_Hearn@digicon-brs.com.au>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Vanishing FreeBSD Disk Partitions. 
Message-ID:  <199708150826.BAA13994@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 15 Aug 1997 17:44:09 %2B1100." <CA2564F4.001C8A6B.00@brisbane.digicon-brs.com.au> 

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>This relates to FreeBSD Disk Partitions spontaneously ' vanishing' on
>several of our high-profile machines.
>
>I posted a brief message a month or so ago, but the problem has been
>recurring
>so I've decided  to include a bit more detail.

   Can you get back everything if you use fdisk to change the partition back
into a FreeBSD one? Are you using msdosfs to access the DOS partition? msdosfs
has been a problem in the past (which we think we've fixed) - the failure
symptom was similar to your's.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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