On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 10:09:25PM +0100, Konrad Sowula wrote: > to keep things short, rebooting my vps using 'Server restart' in vultr > control panel trashed my /usr/local directory
The VULTR "Restart Server" option explicitly says "Are you sure you want to restart your server? This is a hard restart." So it's like pulling the power cable from a server. It doesn't issue a reboot command that safely shuts down the VM and then restarts. > If anyone has at least a hint of what happened and could guide me > towards a correct way of handling situations like these in the future > I would be much obliged. Next time, run "reboot" from the command line if you want to reboot. Like others said, fsck_ffs didn't cause the trouble, it just tried to help you fix it. If this was my server I would click "View Console" from the VULTR dashboard. If the machine is sitting at a fsck prompt, I would do what it suggests. Otherwise if the machine has booted and /usr/local isn't mounted, then run fsck_ffs on its partition. It's hard to tell what state your VM is in. It may be necessary to create a new VM and rsync your files to the new VM. Nicolai
