Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 23:19:29 GMT From: Michael Ryan <mike@NetworX.ie> To: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@woozle.rinet.ru> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Getting info from a crashed disk Message-ID: <ECS9711032329B@NetworX.ie>
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Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > I had an IDE disk on my machine (Quantum FB 1080A, rather old). Some days > ago i type "pine" and got message complaining about reading my mailbox. > Moment look at the console got unrecoverable read error message. > Digging into a problem i found directories /var/mail and /usr/home > (yeah! :((() unreadable. System was 2.2.2-R. Are you aware of anything that you did wrong? I ask because I'm very careful about shutting the system down cleanly (it's FBSD 2.2.2R also). Last week, when I tried to cold-boot the machine one morning, it failed because the root filesystem was corrupt, I'm not aware of anything I did that was wrong. I shut the machine down by typing "halt" and waiting for the "Press any key to reboot" message to appear on the console before switching off power. Might this be a bug lurking in the depths of the 2.2.2 kernel? Bye, Mike <mike@NetworX.ie> ---
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