From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Sun Jan 9 03:07:03 2005 X-Original-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de Delivered-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de Subject: Re: [MiNT] Weird Disk problem From: Mark Duckworth To: Adam =?iso-8859-2?Q?K=B3obukowski?= Cc: Mint List In-Reply-To: <41E06A2D.90406@gabo.pl> References: <41E031EF.2020803@gabo.pl> <1105225027.3897.35.camel@joy.home> <41E06A2D.90406@gabo.pl> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-Yy68WKgH2g5I43HRxPnU" Organization: Atari-source.com Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 21:04:54 -0500 Message-Id: <1105236294.7815.14.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.3 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-To: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: mduckworth@atari-source.com Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.5 tagged_above=-50.5 required=3.8 tests=AWL, BAYES_00 X-Spam-Level: --=-Yy68WKgH2g5I43HRxPnU Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Maybe. But why I'm the only one victim? Everybody here are using Falcons=20 > for years, anybodu remember such crashes? Well now that you mention it ;-) On anything lower than my Mega STe I was victim to harddrive crashes almost weekly. Now for some reason those systems treat me right but I don't do much with my 1040. My Mega STe is reliable. The falcon I notice is *ultra* reliable but I did have a strange issue once. =20 My system backup script consists of copying 4 partitions from an IDE disk into folders on a scsi disk. It used to do rm -rf /h/c/, rm -rf /h/d/ and so on. Somehow, someway there was some sort of corruption that caused it to start rm -rf / so it quickly wiped out C:, D: and part of E:. This was annoying to say the least, however the backup from before was still on my backup disk so this wasn't too bad. Also I was able to recover most of what was already on D: and E: even though it wiped files so this was quite good! This is for sure not a TOS bug. This is a bug I poked at in either ext2 or freemint. These things happen and our userbase isn't big enough to weed out stuff like that. Instead I dealt with the situation much more easily. mkfs.ext2 H: before I start the backup script which no longer rm -rf's ;) I wish though I could backup over samba but that doesn't work. Also making huge .tar.gz files doesn't work either. That's something that should be able to be found. Thanks, --=20 Mark Duckworth Atari-source.com --=-Yy68WKgH2g5I43HRxPnU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBB4JFGCWL0o+zoNvwRAgxZAJwJywE689pL2wqj77rbcaI9VX0z3wCg0T30 GpfowES5d+b2WPwB4XYfSJQ= =ZyjL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-Yy68WKgH2g5I43HRxPnU--