From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 18 08:29:40 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F25416A419 for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:29:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jonathan@hst.org.za) Received: from hermes.hst.org.za (onix.hst.org.za [209.203.2.133]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7A8313C458 for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:29:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jonathan@hst.org.za) Received: from sysadmin.hst.org.za (sysadmin.int.dbn.hst.org.za [10.1.1.20]) (authenticated bits=0) by hermes.hst.org.za (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m1I8Liaw026545 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:21:45 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from jonathan@hst.org.za) From: Jonathan McKeown Organization: Health Systems Trust To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:41:35 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <200802172144.36924.jonathan+freebsd-questions@hst.org.za> <200802172351.27467.jonathan+freebsd-questions@hst.org.za> <20080217225355.V4472@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <20080217225355.V4472@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200802181041.36332.jonathan@hst.org.za> X-Spam-Score: -4.38 () ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.61 on 209.203.2.133 Subject: Re: fdisk from fixit CD: geom not found X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:29:40 -0000 On Sunday 17 February 2008 23:55, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > I'd still rather there wasn't an ``error'' message at all unless there's > > a genuine error: I'm planning for the case of an operator with limited > > skills doing a ``monkey see, monkey do'' restore (not trying to be rude, > > but > > monkey can do ifconfig, route and /etc/rc.d/sshd start > > then you do the rest Except this is a disaster recovery plan: it must not rely on me being available. I'm looking at a scenario in which the survivors of the disaster have bought replacement hardware, hired someone who's done a bit of Linux, and handed them a set of offsite backup tapes and a ring-binder. (I can get most sites tapes offsite by 60+km on a daily basis: if a disaster simultaneously takes out, for example, the city of Durban - at sea level, population 3.5 million - and Pietermaritzburg, 80km inland and 750 metres above sea level, I'm not sure restoring our backups is going to be the biggest worry.) Jonathan