From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 1 16:18:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA02407 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 16:18:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.netcetera.dk (root@sleipner.netcetera.dk [194.192.207.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA02205 for ; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 16:17:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from leifn@image.dk) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by mail.netcetera.dk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id BAA30443 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 01:12:47 +0100 Received: by swimsuit.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk (0.99.970109) id AA03978; 02 Mar 98 01:11:30 +0100 From: leifn@image.dk (Leif Neland) Date: 01 Mar 98 02:44:04 +0100 Subject: Re: best way to recover Message-ID: <411_9803020111@swimsuit.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk> References: Organization: Fidonet: Swimsuit Safari. Go for it. To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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