From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 2 18:35:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tolik.localdomain (ras-c5800-1-50-171.dialup.wisc.edu [128.104.50.171]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CBC137B4EC for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2001 18:35:09 -0800 (PST) Received: (from karp@localhost) by tolik.localdomain (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f132fut00986; Fri, 2 Feb 2001 20:41:56 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from karp@math.wisc.edu) Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 20:41:56 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <200102030241.f132fut00986@tolik.localdomain> X-Authentication-Warning: tolik.localdomain: karp set sender to karp@math.wisc.edu using -f From: Anatoly Karp To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: [Q] your first BSD crash - what lessons to learn?.. Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello all, It may have happened to many of you, but today my (home PC) FreeBSD-4.2-stable crashed for the first time in my life (during port 'make install' if that's important) rendering /usr corrupted. in the end fsck fixed it quite easily, but during first hours of shock and confusion I was wondering: what could have been done to be better prepared for this occasion (which would only happen to other guys, I used to think)? is my understanding correct that I should have made /home a separate slice, so my user files are not endangered by (certain kinds of) system crashes? is it correct that the only way to achieve this now would be to reformat the disk and reinstall from sources? Generally, can you please post any personal tips and tricks that might be relevant in this respect? Also, are there any good pointers on unix file system after-crash recovery? (I hope I won't become a frequent user of those) Thanks, Anatoly To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message