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From: Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com>
To: "ETHAN HOUSE (RIT Student)" <ewh2048@rit.edu>
Subject: Re: Base System Rebuild
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Hi,

On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 22:46:52 -0800
"ETHAN HOUSE (RIT Student)" <ewh2048@rit.edu> wrote:

> It was a VM.

you mean that it is?
> 
> Problem is the person who set up this machine had never used FreeBSD
> before and made a lot of really weird mistakes. I think the best
> course of action is to just create a new VM image and start from
> scratch.

But damaging the file system should have nothing to do with it. With an
UPS, the file system only gets damages when the kernel crashes with
open writes.

If possible, I would not install a new image but try to do a newfs on
as many partitions as possible. If the machine is setup with the new
approach of having only one partition, this is not possible.

Erich