Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 12:18:36 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: mbarkah@hemi.com (Ade Barkah) Subject: Re: Poof, hard drive wiped clean... Message-ID: <199605161018.MAA01364@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199605152133.PAA26133@hemi.com> from Ade Barkah at "May 15, 96 03:33:08 pm"
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As Ade Barkah wrote: > > One of our 2.1-R machines was backing up an nfs-mounted filesystem > to a 4mm tape when poof, the system panicked, spewed something about > / being mangled, rebooted, and never came back. Booting the machine > up gives the familiar "Non-system disk..." error. > Any ideas ? I'm going to simply repartition and reinstall > FreeBSD on it, but I'm worried this will happen again. Keep the fdisk and/or disklabel figures somewhere on paper. Most of these accidents can be recovered by relabelling the drives in question. (If your disk is ``dangerously dedicated'', only the disklabel is important, the fdisk table degrades to something that's not much used then.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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