> if it's new enough, it would be not that bad - you surely have warranty, > don't you?
Yes, Seagate's 3 year warranty! > well - as now all seems to be normal, a hardware failure is a less > probable possibility. i would make a check anyway ... :) optimistical... problems never fade away without some intervention. I sometimes get a very noisy start up from the disk (even before the system is initialized); that might be related :( > as i don't have the foggiest notion of *bsd, i can't tell you if this > could be a problem of any kind. i don't think so ... The strange thing is that I don't have to give a -t <fs_type> option to the 'mount' command: # mount /dev/wd0p /mnt mounts the partition without asking for a fs type. > not much surprising - this is the partition where most write operations > are done. > i have to manually fsck it after nearly every crash ... Can I safely unmount /var and run 'fsck' on it? > if everything seems to be ok now and no new problems arise, then you > should not worry _too_ much. possibly you should check all the > config-files in /var if anything seems to work not as expected. > look, if you find something useful in lost+found - these are orphaned > i-nodes, etc. > a thread about undeletable files we had already some days ago. the point > is, that these files have the ext2-attribute "immutable" (or something > like that) set. you need the ext2-tools (no idea, how the package is > named) to remove them. mmh... should do something about those files, but don't have a clue of what and how should be done. I'll have a look at that thread. > if the disaster was neither caused by hardware failure nor by external > impact nor by crash, then a question arises (guess which ;-) ) ... > which kernel are you using? i heard some ugly things about 2.2.13 ... No, I'm pretty conservative in that respect. I heared 2.2.10 was v. good and stable, and since I don't need anything from 2.2.13 I stayed with 2.2.10. Thank you so much for your help. -- Horacio Anno MMDCCLIII aUC mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~Spain ~Spanje ~Spanien -------------------------------------------------------------------- Key fingerprint = F4EE AE5E 2F01 0DB3 62F2 A9F4 AD31 7093 4233 7AE6
