Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 10:28:15 -0500 From: Jerry Alexandratos <alexandr@louie.udel.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Help!!!! Message-ID: <9511291528.aa11215@stimpy.eecis.udel.edu>
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Okay, this is getting out of hand! Lately I've been having all types
of problems with my file-system. It's been getting corrupted and I've
been losing files like mad. This morning was the last straw! Half of
/etc is missing. I reboot my machine and it calls itself `Amnesiac'
because it can't find any of it's rc files. I can't even fsck because
most of /sbin is gone too (or is it /usr/sbin...).
It's too late. I'm just going to back up all my configuration files
that haven't disappeared yet, and start from scratch.
So, my question is what can I do during fdisk, label, etc... to make
sure that I don't have these types of problems again.
I'm using a Gateway 2000 p5-75. It's got a built-in PCI IDE harddisk
controller. The hard drive is a WD Caviar AC21000 drive. It's a 1G
drive with the following parameters:
Cyl-2100 Heads-16 Sectors-63 LZ-0 Write Precomp-None
So, where should I begin. Is there any file-system that I should
specifically be using or are there any newfs options that I need to
give when I use the disklabel program?
As always, thanks.
--Jerry
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8) alexandr@louie.udel.edu % - % thoughts, and oblivion (8
8) darkstar@strauss.udel.edu % - % drives my desires." (8
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