Subject: ccd oddness (was Re: why remove my backups? (Fwd: nanook daily insecurity output for Thu Nov 14 03:15:01 EST 2002))
To: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
From: Charlie Allom <charlie@rubberduck.com>
List: current-users
Date: 11/14/2002 17:54:07
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 12:45:08AM -0500, Andrew Brown wrote:
> >why would my machine have removed my backups of my disklabels? The RCS
> >files are still there, I understand - I am curious in the internal
> >workings here ..
> 
> it has "removed" them from the list of things it checks every night
> because you have apparently deconfigured your ccd.  the notice you got
> was to inform you that it won't be checking any more.  the rcs files
> will remain until you remove them.

/me panics

383 yeled@nanook:~ df
Filesystem  1M-blocks     Used     Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/sd0a         124       29        89    24%    /
/dev/sd0e         124        6       111     5%    /var
/dev/sd0f        3590      630      2780    18%    /usr
/dev/sd0d         124        0       118     0%    /tmp
/dev/ccd0c      51554    39974      9002    81%    /home

384 yeled@nanook:~ cat /etc/ccd.conf
ccd0    0       none    /dev/sd1a       /dev/sd2a       /dev/sd3a

388 yeled@nanook:~ sudo disklabel /dev/ccd0
disklabel: /dev/ccd0c: Device busy

*eep* disklabel on sd0,1,2,3 works.

I rebooted - maybe the first time since I setup the ccd.. What else
could cause this to happen - is a ccd mean to show a disklabel?

Thanks for reading such a spammy email.

Regards,
  C.
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