Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 21:26:29 +1000 From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> To: Bsd Newbie <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: accidently pulled the plug... Message-ID: <20011001212629.K482@k7.mavetju.org> In-Reply-To: <20011001101935.5479.qmail@web20110.mail.yahoo.com>; from bsdneophyte@yahoo.com on Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 03:19:35AM -0700 References: <20011001101935.5479.qmail@web20110.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 03:19:35AM -0700, Bsd Newbie wrote: > I thought I was disconneting my windows machine... but I pulled the plug > for my FreeBSD machine instead... Wooops. > I haven't powered the machine on yet... I want to know what I should to to > sort any problems that might arise because I didn't do a proper shutdown. When you start the machine, it will see that the system wasn't shutdown properly. It will run fsck to check for problems with the file system. Next what happens is dependant of what you were doing with the machine. If it was idle for a couple of minutes there shouldn't be much troubles, everything should have be synced on disk. If you were writing to the disk, then these files might be lost or damaged. If you were in vi, you will be given the option to recover your sessions. If you have softupdates enabled on your filesystems, then you will propably have the least problems. Turn it on and see what fsck is saying of it! Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: ------------------+ http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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