I have the same sympthoms after adding new partition. This new partition was for
/tmp filesystem. But it shifted after rebooting to another letter and I saw
about two or three minutes how NetBSD erased my /usr.

  Sergey Ivanov.



-----Original Message-----
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
To: Guy Santiglia <fredfl2@soback.kornet.net>
Cc: port-mac68k@netbsd.org <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
Date: Thursday, May 27, 1999 6:29 PM
Subject: Re: slow booting/ 1.4


>On May 28,  6:37am, fredfl2@soback.kornet.net (Guy Santiglia) wrote:
>-- Subject: Re: slow booting/ 1.4
>
>| On Wed, 26 May 1999, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>|
>|
>| That was the problem.  I deleted those files in there and now
>| it boot right up with no delays.
>|
>|
>|     Thanks Chris.  How do those files get in there?
>|
>
>If you kill vi, or it dies it makes a preserve file that has all the
>history of the editing changes so that your editing session is not
>lost. you can use vi -r to recover.
>
>christos