From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 29 08:07:52 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id IAA26500 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 08:07:52 -0800 Received: from louie.udel.edu (mmdf@louie.udel.edu [128.175.7.39]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id IAA26488 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 08:07:45 -0800 Received: by louie.udel.edu id ab20092; 29 Nov 95 10:53 EST Received: from [128.175.2.15] by louie.udel.edu id aa18701; 29 Nov 95 10:30 EST Received: from stimpy.eecis.udel.edu by snow-white.ee.udel.edu id aa03074; 29 Nov 95 10:28 EST Received: from snow-white.ee.udel.edu by stimpy.eecis.udel.edu id aa11215; 29 Nov 95 15:28 GMT To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Help!!!! Organization: Mos Eisley Candy Store MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <11210.817658895.1@louie.udel.edu> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 10:28:15 -0500 From: Jerry Alexandratos Message-ID: <9511291528.aa11215@stimpy.eecis.udel.edu> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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 8) Jerry Alexandratos % - % "Nothing inhabits my (8 8) alexandr@louie.udel.edu % - % thoughts, and oblivion (8 8) darkstar@strauss.udel.edu % - % drives my desires." (8