Re: Partition completely wiped out, why?

2024-01-13 Thread Jonas Bechtel
You are right. To check, I created a clean partition image and performed newfs on that. Then I compared all changes (see attachment) from newfs to the hexedit view of wd0j. Despite of two, three tiny differences all newfs written zeroes 0x00 match the zeroes found in wd0j. Where newfs has writte

Re: Partition completely wiped out, why?

2024-01-10 Thread Jonas Bechtel
TL;DR - maybe the reason is some bad interaction between Linux mount with wrong -o ufstype=old with following BSD auto-fsck on boot? Also thanks to ken and Otto for pointing out that you must write one of "ro" or "rw". In case it helps, here are detailed answers to the questions: On Wed, 10

Partition completely wiped out, why?

2024-01-09 Thread Jonas Bechtel
Dear "misc" list attendees, maybe someone of you has an idea what happened. Ten years ago I installed OpenBSD 5.[?] which included setting up a small partition of 2 GB, including the full OS with kernel, programs, web-related data, etc.. Occasionally the partition was full so I had to gzip som