On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 08:47:10AM -0800, Sam Leffler wrote the words in effect of: > > Yesterday morning I was having some trouble with XFree consuming much more > > cpu time than necessary... A truss showed that some kind of shared memory > > issue going on, but also froze my system hard. After rebooting (kernel was > > from Nov 26 or 27) fsck could not check my one dirty UFS2 partition. Had > > to newfs and mtree to recreate /var. No big deal, and I saved an image of > > it beforehand. > > > > After rebooting, there was... NOTHING. GRUB errored out and wouldn't boot. > > Nothing could see my partitions. After a minimal 4.7-R install (DP2 > > disklabel whined about offsets and some other STRANGE error messages, > > so I went with 4.7) on a small fat32 partition, I discovered that the > > disklabel was empty. Had to edit it by hand... Booted up fine, made > > a backup, rebooted, and nothing. Not only was there NOTHING, but the > > disklabel on the new 4.7 install had vanished as well. This time the > > disklabel had to be recreated with -w -r AND the boot blocks had to be > > reinstalled. > > > > I've seen one post similar to this, but not much else. I think maybe the > > UFS2 problem had to do with Kirk's recent changes, but the disklabel > > issue... I'm wary to reboot my machine! What in the hell could be causing > > this? I'm tempted to point the finger at GEOM, but hate to say anything > > like that. > > Same problem hit me yesterday. Haven't figured out the cause yet. > > Sam
FWIW, find-sb in /usr/src/tools/tools, does a good job of finding UFS1 and UFS2 slices. It is somewhat similar to scan_ffs but way more advanced. -- Hiten Pandya ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.unixdaemons.com/~hiten/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
