From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 16 04:01:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA18004 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 16 May 1996 04:01:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA17986 for ; Thu, 16 May 1996 04:01:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id NAA19501; Thu, 16 May 1996 13:00:35 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id NAA15751; Thu, 16 May 1996 13:00:35 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id MAA01364; Thu, 16 May 1996 12:18:36 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199605161018.MAA01364@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Poof, hard drive wiped clean... To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 12:18:36 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: mbarkah@hemi.com (Ade Barkah) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199605152133.PAA26133@hemi.com> from Ade Barkah at "May 15, 96 03:33:08 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)