Base System Rebuild

[ETHAN HOUSE (RIT Student)]

I have access to both the Host and the VM. Due to my distance and
horrifying internet connection interacting with libvirt and virtmanager is
a nightmare.

Lessons have been learned.

Ethan House


On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 11:25 PM, Erich Dollansky <
erichsfreebsdlist at alogt.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 23:07:54 -0800
> "ETHAN HOUSE (RIT Student)" <ewh2048 at rit.edu> wrote:
>
> > The VMHost is on a journaled file system so that shouldn't happen.
> > It's also on a UPS.
> >
> so, to what do you have access? To the host or to the virtual machine
> inside?
>
> You should never get affected by any file system problems of the host
> except that your imagine will crash.
>
> > It was setup on a single partition, so newfs is not possible.
>
> You learned now the hard way that it is better to have several
> partitions. A system with partitions for /, swap, /tmp, /var, /usr and
> home has a much higher chance to avoid the problem you got caught in.
> Of course, setting it up takes a bit more time.
>
> Erich
> >
> > Ethan House
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 11:00 PM, Erich Dollansky <
> > erichsfreebsdlist at alogt.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 22:46:52 -0800
> > > "ETHAN HOUSE (RIT Student)" <ewh2048 at rit.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > > > It was a VM.
> > >
> > > you mean that it is?
> > > >
> > > > Problem is the person who set up this machine had never used
> > > > FreeBSD before and made a lot of really weird mistakes. I think
> > > > the best course of action is to just create a new VM image and
> > > > start from scratch.
> > >
> > > But damaging the file system should have nothing to do with it.
> > > With an UPS, the file system only gets damages when the kernel
> > > crashes with open writes.
> > >
> > > If possible, I would not install a new image but try to do a newfs
> > > on as many partitions as possible. If the machine is setup with the
> > > new approach of having only one partition, this is not possible.
> > >
> > > Erich
> > >
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