recover superblock

[Andre Guibert de Bruet]

On Sun, 24 Aug 2003, Jeremy Messenger wrote:

> On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 21:26:11 +0200, Thomas Gutzler <giggel at hadiko.de>
> wrote:
>
> I have lost over 1,000 to 2,000 emails like three times when the Nvidia
> driver crashed and had to do the power off and on to get it boot to let the
> fsck background do the job. Yesterday, I CVSup'ed and did the buildworld to
> update my -CURRENT. I got panic and reboot; first time I see the same
> message above, 'softupdate inconsistency' and I had to ran fsck by manual.
> After that, I discovered that my /var/, /compat/linux/ and very little
> stuff in my home directory have been destroyed. I can't produce the panic
> anymore so can't really give any help that much now; it was only panic at
> once for unknown reason.
>
> Just want to add in here that you aren't only person in here.

I don't have a solution for you, but I have some sound advice: Don't run
critical systems on -current. I consider email to fall in that category...

Regards,

> Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant >
> Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/    >