Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:40:37 +0000 From: "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda@gmail.com> To: Dan Allen <danallen46@airwired.net> Cc: FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Something since June 8th clobbers my disk... Message-ID: <3a142e750906111440s26405c53v82fa82917145b930@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <E94316FD-D047-4C7D-BD51-5C01862A55BA@airwired.net> References: <E94316FD-D047-4C7D-BD51-5C01862A55BA@airwired.net>
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On 6/11/09, Dan Allen <danallen46@airwired.net> wrote: > I sync with 7-STABLE almost every day. I build everything on a > Toshiba U205 Satellite. Things are fine for months on end. > > I did this on June 8th. Everything was fine. > > I did this on June 10th. The machine no longer booted. The entire > root partition got clobbered. I reinstalled a snapshot of 7-STABLE > from May 28th that I had put on a DVD. Everything was once again fine. > > I then sync'd again this morning June 11th with 7-STABLE, did a full > build, and reproducibly, BOOM - the entire root partition got > clobbered. Gone. Again. After the reboot it just comes up with: > > BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.02 > Consoles: internal video/keyboard > BIOS drive A: is disk0 > BIOS drive C: is disk1 > > and stops. Nothing else is printed. There is no choice of how to > boot. There is no files for me to send, no log files to inspect, no > remnants. I unfortunately did not see where in the build this > happened. My build does the canonical steps exactly as outlined in / > usr/src/Makefile and then does a reboot. It builds userland and the > kernel. > > When I inspect it from the bootable DVD the partition that my root > filesystem was in has no association with it having the root any > more. The partition is listed, but it looks like it had been freshly > partitioned. > > Something is very, very wrong. > > Ideas? Are you using ZFS on root partition? -- Paul
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