From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 16 16:12:04 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02FD716A400 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:12:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from drewjenkinsjr@yahoo.com) Received: from web62206.mail.re1.yahoo.com (web62206.mail.re1.yahoo.com [69.147.75.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BBDCE13C44C for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:12:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from drewjenkinsjr@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 21160 invoked by uid 60001); 16 Mar 2007 16:12:03 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=L6E47VTESpeTWoH5g6KnfL38rkMxZMGJgrKL50ApJO4aUtfleo3svUeRLxzS/MxoiduhYqXBIoFxix5dik9EPqVG7sY92oAmfSLAzrfxtCI8r7Ezf34/PbFspkAKHL3rxvN/FNSFNyd5ghO7jltlbPtNAuoFQzdaXgZ061TsNE4=; X-YMail-OSG: r6FMovMVM1nGUDsQozvqrAorYDVFV4aadZXSDa1G7gkl1uHxihqzUhxpeOQDQ2eTMLEaX5yNQ9W7EFaLnGltHCRYMPct6dH7lTsHoJKMR28EdVSWlV779uNOS0QWsI_E Received: from [66.82.9.60] by web62206.mail.re1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:12:02 PDT Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:12:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Drew Jenkins To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20070316153127.GI75446@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <344.20901.qm@web62206.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: Corrupted OS 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: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:12:04 -0000 Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 07:16:33AM -0700, Drew Jenkins wrote: > 2Kevin Kinsey wrote:> > synch your source to 6.2 > > > > > > How? And is this necessary since it's already at 6.2? > > > > The command below, "cvsup -g -L 2 supfile". Assuming, of > course, that > > the supfile is valid. Is it necessary? Depends; if you're convinced > > that something is wrong with your current installation, then you might > > not need to, because you can rebuild exactly the system that you > > *should* have (for example, perhaps you fat-fingered a chmod or rm > > call?). > > Can you finally learn to break you lines at about 70 characters in length. > Having them run on long makes it much more difficult to make responses. > Most Email clients allow you to configure it to break lines. If yours >does not, just hit a a RETURN/ENTER about there each time. Yahoo's new beta must be the problem. Let's see if the old yahoo system works. Just switched back. Let me know. > That I don't quite get. If you are just adding a disk to your machine, > it is not likely to corript the rest of the system unless you execute > something on that disk. Which I did. Trust me. I've ruled everything else out. It's the HD. > When you fdisk, bsdlabel and newfs it, it is > wiped and the previous contents are gone. If you precede that with > a nice dd to overwrite initial sectors with zeros, then it is even > more wiped before you even get to the fdisk. Can I bsdlabel, newfs and fdisk that disk without wiping the other disks, and do it remotely? > Or are you trying to add this disk to a mirror in such a way that > the raid controller thinks it is the good disk and the other is > corrupt and tries to rebuild the mirror with the contents of the > added disk? That you don't want to do. That I am not doing. There are two other disks in the box that are SCSIs. > My thoughts are that something is happening that you haven't declared > yet. An HD does not go out and zap files. That is like saying one > book on a shelf skipped over and trashed the contents of another book > on a shelf. You misread. The files were on the new HD. The "action scripts", or s/w that calls those dbase files, are on the SCSI drives. TIA, Drew --------------------------------- We won't tell. Get more on shows you hate to love (and love to hate): Yahoo! TV's Guilty Pleasures list.