From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 8 00:43:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA03530 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Jul 1997 00:43:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from janus.cat.csiro.au (janus.cat.csiro.au [140.253.3.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA03523 for ; Tue, 8 Jul 1997 00:43:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cetus.digicon-brs.com.au (cetus.digicon-brs.com.au [140.253.221.40]) by janus.cat.csiro.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA04825 for ; Tue, 8 Jul 1997 17:42:44 +1000 (EST) Received: by cetus.digicon-brs.com.au (1.38.193.4/DIGICON/SECOND/1.01) id AA24224; Tue, 8 Jul 1997 18:45:09 +1100 Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 18:45:08 +1100 (AEST) From: Steve Hearn To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Vanishing FreeBSD Partitions Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Please - Has anyone seen this before? I've recently installed V2.2.2 on several Gateway Pentium II machines. Running fine except: On one of the boxes the FreeBSD Partition has completely vanished - twice (both times at night when the machine was up and running BSD) (In a locked room). The DOS partition is OK. FDISK run under dos fails to see the 'deleted' BSD partition. When I boot up off a BSD floppy and go into the Partition editor, it sees the lost partition as 'unused'. The only other clue - this was set up as an anonymous ftp machine as we were using it as our local 'distribution' machine. Is it possible it could have been 'hacked' or can anybody suggest some other possible cause. We are just in the process of 3rd reinstall! Steve Hearn Exploration Geophysics Laboratory University of Queensland Brisbane Australia Email: steveh@cetus.digicon-brs.com.au