From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 1 4:30:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from topaz.mdcc.cx (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65AFF37B40B for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 04:26:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from k7.mavetju.org (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by topaz.mdcc.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 055DD2B705; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 13:26:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: by k7.mavetju.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 4867794; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 21:26:29 +1000 (EST) Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 21:26:29 +1000 From: Edwin Groothuis To: Bsd Newbie Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: accidently pulled the plug... Message-ID: <20011001212629.K482@k7.mavetju.org> Mail-Followup-To: Edwin Groothuis , Bsd Newbie , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20011001101935.5479.qmail@web20110.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011001101935.5479.qmail@web20110.mail.yahoo.com>; from bsdneophyte@yahoo.com on Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 03:19:35AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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