Re: pwd.db/spwd.db file corupption when having unsafe system poweroff

2013-05-04 Thread takCoder
First, thank you for your quick and complete reply :) then: > Furthermore, file system corruption due to an abrupt > cut of power should be avoided. Whenever the system comes > up in a non-clean state, fsck should be run first, _then_ > the boot process should continue. Still it's possible that

Re: ls(1), rm(1) - No such file or directory even though they are there.

2013-05-04 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 4 May 2013 10:43:37 -0700 (PDT), Michael Bird wrote: > > Hi List, > > There is a rather curious problem that I have, which I haven't encountered > before. > I make regular backups of my packages and put them onto an external usb drive, > which is mounted read/write via sysutils/fusefs-nt

Re: ls(1), rm(1) - No such file or directory even though they are there.

2013-05-04 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Reference: > From: Michael Bird > Reply-to: Michael Bird > Date: Sat, 4 May 2013 10:43:37 -0700 (PDT) Michael Bird wrote: > > Hi List, > > There is a rather curious problem that I have, which I haven't encountered > before. > I make regular backups of my packages and pu

freebsd-update question

2013-05-04 Thread doug
I had an 8.2 system that I wanted to take to 8.4. First I tried upgrade to 8.4, getting (in essence) can't do that. So I upgraded 8.2 which worked giving the end-of-life warning. But seemed work. I then did an upgrade to 8.3 with: freebsd-update -r 8.3-RELEASE upgrade The first part, downlo

ls(1), rm(1) - No such file or directory even though they are there.

2013-05-04 Thread Michael Bird
Hi List, There is a rather curious problem that I have, which I haven't encountered before. I make regular backups of my packages and put them onto an external usb drive, which is mounted read/write via sysutils/fusefs-ntfs. Now these backups don't exist no more and at the same time they are t

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2013-05-04 Thread The Urban Shopper
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