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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uunet!mcsun!uknet!axion!micromuse!adam@mcromuse.co.uk From: adam@micromuse.co.uk (Adam Kerrison) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: 386BSD - Filesystem Trashed !! Message-ID: <BuAyF8.Bvs@micromuse.co.uk> Date: 9 Sep 92 08:33:08 GMT Sender: news@micromuse.co.uk Reply-To: adam@micromuse.co.uk Organization: MicroMuse Ltd, London, Uk Lines: 42 Nntp-Posting-Host: zaphod Oh No !! I have trashed my 386BSD partitions (note the plural) I was trying to get X386 to work. I ran xdm and the system hangs (with a blank graphics screen). So hit the reset, wait for the boot up, watch the fsck for bad bits in the filesystem .... whats this - NO errors at all ? I just thought I was lucky. So, once the machine was up into /usr/X386/lib/X11/xdm and read the xdm-errors - oopps no video timing in Xconfig so changed to ../etc and read the XConfog.notes files with more. After and bit of reading (backwards and forwards) more suddenly exited in mid document and gave me a prompt. I tried the more again and got a 'no such file' type of error. ls revealed all the filenames where scrambled - every other letter a ? character. I then changed to / and did ls - oh dear .... I got a panic: bad dir and corrupted node messages and the machine crashed. After that I tryed to reboot but the disk wouldn't access, the machine would only use the a: drive. In desperation - I went to bed ! This morning however, I tryed the fixit floppy and manually run fsck on 3 of my partitions - no errors at all. I checked the disklabel - fine. So I tryed a reboot - and hey presto ! One BSD system, working fine ! Help me people ! What is going on ? Do I have a dodgy disk/controller ?? In there a bug in the filesystem (or in more !!) or was it a glitch ??!! Any ideas would be helpful - I don't want to go though that again !!!!! Thanks Adam =========================================================================== Adam Kerrison | Phone : +44 71 352 7774 Technical Support | Fax : +44 71 351 7834 MicroMuse Ltd | E-mail: adam@micromuse.co.uk London SW10 0RN | =========================================================================== "When you kill a man, you're a murderer. Kill many, and you're a conqueror. Kill them all, you're a god !" - Think about it ===========================================================================