From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 30 14:46:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C98F37BE77 for ; Tue, 30 May 2000 14:46:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id BAA18615; Wed, 31 May 2000 01:49:26 +0200 Message-ID: <393436F0.A483BB0E@i-clue.de> Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 23:47:28 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Organization: i-clue interactive GmbH X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Quinn, Ralph" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disappearing kernel file References: <0442468CEE22D411A0D300204840384D024D21BC@mailman.fdhc.state.fl.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "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