Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 23:47:28 +0200 From: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de> To: "Quinn, Ralph" <quinnr@fdhc.state.fl.us> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disappearing kernel file Message-ID: <393436F0.A483BB0E@i-clue.de> References: <0442468CEE22D411A0D300204840384D024D21BC@mailman.fdhc.state.fl.us>
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"Quinn, Ralph" wrote: > Dear sirs, > > This last weekend our office experienced a power failure. On coming to work > in the morning two of our FreeBSD machines were down two others we up. On > the ones that were down the file '/kernel' was missing. Getting them back up > was no problem since there were /kernel.old files still available. > (Re-compiling the kernel was no problem. Everything is fine now.) > Have other people reported similar problems? Once. > Are there any steps that I can take to reduce the likelihood of this sort of > event occurring in the future? I made sure /var and /tmp were filesystems on separate partitions, and enabled softupdates on them. > Any idea why a /kernel file should simply be gone? corrupted inodes, probably. > For what it's worth, the two (Debian) Linux boxes we use came through > unscathed. Lucky you. My single (SuSE) box cam through the power loss brainless: ext2fs root file system gone completely, I could get only some configuration files back. Without a backup, this would be a major PITA.YMMV. Have fun -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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