From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 4 01:15:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA27073 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 4 Nov 1997 01:15:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from sam.networx.ie (ts17-13.dublin.indigo.ie [194.125.134.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA27064 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 1997 01:15:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@NetworX.ie) Received: from mike (mike.networx.ie [194.9.12.33]) by sam.networx.ie (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA01165; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 23:20:43 GMT X-Organisation: I.T. NetworX Ltd X-Business: Network Consultancy and Training X-Address: 67 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, Ireland X-Voice: +353-1-676-8866 X-Fax: +353-1-676-8868 Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 23:19:29 GMT From: Michael Ryan Reply-To: mike@NetworX.ie Subject: Re: Getting info from a crashed disk To: Dmitry Morozovsky cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: Priority: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 ---