From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 9 15:40:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-10.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51F1314DB1 for ; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 15:40:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jon@dookie.demon.co.uk) Received: from [158.152.138.232] (helo=dookie.demon.co.uk) by finch-post-10.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10VfgT-0003Rt-0A; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:07:18 +0000 Received: by dookie.demon.co.uk via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.101) for davidh@progmatics.com.au; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 20:09:18 +0100 (BST) Content-Length: 1033 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on Linux X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <370D4475.3D1CE7E0@progmatics.com.au> Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 20:09:17 +0100 (BST) Organization: Jon's Place From: Jonathan Belson To: David Hobley Subject: RE: 3.1-RELEASE Crash/FS Corruption on my Libretto Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 09-Apr-99 David Hobley wrote: > Hello, > > I installed FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE (the one that comes with the 3.1 > Walnut Creek CDROM) onto my Libretto this week. I had just got > everything installed over a serial line (slow slow slow - but I > can't use my ethernet card as the machine has only one slot and the > floppy used that on boot). I took out the hard drive and plugged it into one of my other machines with an adaptor. Once the basic install worked, I could use my ethernet connection for the upgrading. > I was logged in to the console as root and executed zzz. This > successfully suspended my machine. > I then resumed my machine which appeared to work well. I logged out > and when I entered my username to log in the machine crashed and > completely trashed my /usr partition. To the extent I will have to > reinstall from scratch. You mentioned that you suspended....you did leave space at the end of your hard disk for the suspend operation to dump on, didn't you? C-YA Jon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message