Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 15:47:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Bsd Newbie <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com> To: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: accidently pulled the plug... Message-ID: <20011001224721.47149.qmail@web20101.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20011001212629.K482@k7.mavetju.org>
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--- Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 03:19:35AM -0700, Bsd Newbie wrote: > 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. I did what you said... luckily the sysem was idle for a few hours... I'd tell you what it said... but dmesg has never worked for me... :/ Everything seems to be in working order though.... thanks to all for their help. :) -Sameer __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone. http://phone.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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