Date: 01 Mar 98 02:44:04 +0100 From: leifn@image.dk (Leif Neland) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: best way to recover Message-ID: <411_9803020111@swimsuit.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk> References: <Pine.BSF.3.91.980228084403.2075A-100000@mybsd.net>
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At 28 Feb 98 18:17:13 Keith Woodworth wrote regarding Re: best way to recover KW> Then I got really lucky a few days ago. My system had had an KW> uptime of just over 60 days. One of my disks have started to KW> make a high pitched whine so I was thinking about what might be KW> the problem with it. I was working in an xterm and thought I'd KW> take a gander at fsck man page. got distracted by a phone call KW> and typed in fsck without man and it ran and said it found some KW> error, want to fix? Sure I thought, realzing that I would have KW> to reboot. Fixed and rebooted right from the xterm. Everything KW> came back up perfectly. Either I got really lucky or there is KW> something waiting to bite me in the ass RSN. Disk still makes a KW> high-pitched whine off and on...think its my Western Digital, KW> though BSD is on my quantum. The cache gets flushed automatically after a while, doesn't it? You probably hadn't written anything to that disk in that while. Leif Neland leifn@image.dk --- |Fidonet: Leif Neland 2:234/49 |Internet: leifn@image.dk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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