From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 16 11:28:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA27940 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 11:28:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA27918 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 11:28:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA06561; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 11:28:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 11:28:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: "Jay D. Nelson" cc: "David A. Richards" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, ekraj@illumen.net Subject: Re: Help! - FreeBSD file system corruption In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Jay D. Nelson wrote: > Interesting. I installed 2.2.1-RELEASE over 2.2.1-GAMMA (circa Feb.) and > had a similar problem. I copied the new GENERIC, reedited and built a new > kernel. So far so good. The machine was a Dell box, XPS P133c, IDE, etc. > > I only installed kernel source over a full source tree from GAMMA. Seemed > reasonable at the time, but stupid in hind sight. I deleted the old > source. I'll echo. We fried the root directory pretty well on a laptop. I'm not quite sure why it happened, but we were able to recover. The other FSs checked out. > BTW -- this showed how bad IDE really is. Watching iostat with 'rm -r' > running showed it blocked most of the time. Yeah... Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major