On 27/03/2013, at 18:43, David Demelier <demelier.da...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yesterday I had a panic on my laptop. Unfortunately the SU+J was not > able to recovery the file system, the error was something like : > > Unknown error: Help! > Could not find directory 9854215 > > And it went to the single user mode, I needed to fsck_ufs manually to > recover the disk. What afraid me is what if happens on a headless > machine? It will be hard to recover.
For headless remote systems I use fsck_y_enable="YES". In my experience 'fsck -y' almost invariably recovers the disk to a point where it can boot and then I can login remotely. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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