From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 1 18:09:39 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id SAA12389 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 18:09:39 -0800 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA12384 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 18:09:27 -0800 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id TAA03219; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 19:06:24 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199512020206.TAA03219@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Help!!!! To: alexandr@louie.udel.edu (Jerry Alexandratos) Date: Fri, 1 Dec 1995 19:06:23 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9511291528.aa11215@stimpy.eecis.udel.edu> from "Jerry Alexandratos" at Nov 29, 95 10:28:15 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 862 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > Okay, this is getting out of hand! Lately I've been having all types > of problems with my file-system. It's been getting corrupted and I've > been losing files like mad. This morning was the last straw! Half of > /etc is missing. I reboot my machine and it calls itself `Amnesiac' > because it can't find any of it's rc files. I can't even fsck because > most of /sbin is gone too (or is it /usr/sbin...). > > > So, where should I begin. Is there any file-system that I should > specifically be using or are there any newfs options that I need to > give when I use the disklabel program? I don't think you can do anything for now. Apparently some patches for async mounts adversely affected non-async mounts. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.