On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 04:02:53PM +0300, Cem Kayali wrote:
Hello!
Could NetBSD friends share their experiences once a NetBSD 4.X system
completely freezes and is restarted by only clicking on power button?
Well, the system rebooted and fcsk started. Then i noticed that
master.passwd didn't exist anymore and passwd is empty. I set root pass
in single user mode and checked some of config files and restored from
backup. I couldn't find any lost+found either. No crash file.
Maybe there was an operation in progress on the passwd files when the
system hung ?
My questions are
- Whether data-loss is normal after fsck completes its job with no
lost+found entries.
No, but you can have trucated or corrupted files if they got written
shortly before the crash. I think a file that was being created when
the crash occurs can be deleted entirely. This is why I suggest a passwd
operation when the freeze occured.
- Whether data-loss is probable on ie; /home partition although it is rw
mounted but untouched before freeze.
No.