Corrupted OS

[youshi10 at u.washington.edu]

On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Drew Jenkins wrote:

> How do I access it (through SSH) if it's unmounted?
> Drew2
>
> Jerry McAllister <jerrymc at msu.edu> wrote: On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 09:11:58AM -0700, Drew Jenkins wrote:
>
>> Jerry McAllister  wrote: On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 07:16:33AM -0700, Drew Jenkins wrote:
>>
>>> 2Kevin Kinsey  wrote:> > synch your source to 6.2
>>> > >
>>> > > How? And is this necessary since it's already at 6.2?
>>> >
>>> > The command below, "cvsup -g -L 2 supfile".  Assuming, of > course, that
>>> > the supfile is valid.  Is it necessary?  Depends; if you're convinced
>>> > that something is wrong with your current installation, then you might
>>> > not need to, because you can rebuild exactly the system that you
>>> > *should* have (for example, perhaps you fat-fingered a chmod or rm
>>> > call?).
>>>
>>
>>> Can you finally learn to break you lines at about 70 characters in length.
>>> Having them run on long makes it much more difficult to make responses.
>>> Most Email clients allow you to configure it to break lines.  If yours
>>> does not, just hit a a RETURN/ENTER about there each time.
>>
>> Yahoo's new beta must be the problem. Let's see if the old yahoo system works. Just switched back. Let me know.
>>
>>> That I don't quite get.  If you are just adding a disk to your machine,
>>> it is not likely to corript the rest of the system unless you execute
>>> something on that disk.
>>
>> Which I did. Trust me. I've ruled everything else out. It's the HD.
>>
>>> When you fdisk, bsdlabel and newfs it, it is
>>> wiped and the previous contents are gone.  If you precede that with
>>> a nice dd to overwrite initial sectors with zeros, then it is even
>>> more wiped before you even get to the fdisk.
>>
>> Can I bsdlabel, newfs and fdisk that disk without wiping the other disks,
>> and do it remotely?
>
> Yes.   You just have to have everything on that disk unmounted.
> Then you can run fdisk either directly or via sysinstall.   I have
> lost track of where you have stuff you want to protect, etc, etc.
> But a separate disk that you want to wipe and start over again on
> can be fdisked, bsdlabeled and newfsed independently from the one
> you are booted from and not affect anything on any other disk and
> you don't need to be able to touch it, just unmount what is
> currently there.
>
> ////jerry
>
>>
>>> Or are you trying to add this disk to a mirror in such a way that
>>> the raid controller thinks it is the good disk and the other is
>>> corrupt and tries to rebuild the mirror with the contents of the
>>> added disk?   That you don't want to do.
>>
>> That I am not doing. There are two other disks in the box that are SCSIs.
>>
>>> My thoughts are that something is happening that you haven't declared
>>> yet.   An HD does not go out and zap files.   That is like saying one
>>> book on a shelf skipped over and trashed the contents of another book
>>> on a shelf.
>>
>> You misread. The files were on the new HD. The "action scripts", or s/w that calls those dbase files, are on the SCSI drives.
>>
>> TIA,
>> Drew

In true grumpier old men style:

"you mount the disk son :)" (after logging in via ssh). Jerry can provide you with the RAID specific details.

-Garrett