On Tue, Sep 05, 2023 at 08:54:58AM -0400, John Holland wrote: > I just had a kernel panic when reloading a firefox tab pointed at facebook. > After restarting, all the filesystems had errors but /home was particularly > bad and caused the boot to stop and prompt if I wanted to enter a root > shell. > > > I eventually got fsck to mark the /home filesystem clean but it found >4000 > lost files that it moved to lost&found. I am not so experienced with this, > running "file" on a few of them shows that they may be intact files but they > have numeric names now. [cut]
A regular external backup would have saved your data no matter what filesystem you might have been using. There are a few different backup solutions available in the ports tree. I use restic, both on OpenBSD and macOS. -- Andreas (Kusalananda) Kähäri SciLifeLab, NBIS, ICM Uppsala University, Sweden .
