Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 17:16:35 -0500 From: "Jonathan M. Slivko" <jslivko@bway.net> To: "'Matthew Seaman'" <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, "'backdoc'" <freebsd01@usmstudent.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: HD problems after power outage Message-ID: <200401042216.i04MGX7q012463@nico.bway.net> In-Reply-To: <20040104220841.GA96090@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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With all the events of September 11th, one would think we'd have learned
about backups by now :)
-- Jonathan
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[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Matthew Seaman
Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 5:09 PM
To: backdoc
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: HD problems after power outage
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 03:36:21PM -0600, backdoc wrote:
> I lost power at my house for a moment this morning which is causing
> some problems with my second hard drive.
[ fsck tale of woe...]
> I try to rerun fsck, but this pattern only repeats. Is there a way to
> fix this?? Or, am I toast?
Toasted to a nice golden brown on both sides. You've had a head crash on
that second drive, which has created a scratch right across a number of disk
sectors. Time to chuck that disk in the bin and restore your backups[1]
onto a new one.
Cheers,
Matthew
[1] You *do* have backups, don't you?
--
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