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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

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