sysinstall creates corrupt filesystems after repartitioning

Kevin Kinsey kdk at daleco.biz
Wed Mar 7 23:55:01 UTC 2007


Steven Hartland wrote:
> Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> ...
>> Is there something I'm missing?
> 
> I can't see anything missing there from the reproduction steps.
> 
> Was ad0s1g also ok? The slight differences I did here where
> the following but I cant seem them being significant:
> 1. dump -a0uL -C 32 -f /nfs/usr.dmp /usr
> 2. restore rf usr.dmp
> 3. fstab entry: /nfs/usr -maproot=root testbox
> 
> Other differences which spring to mind:
> 1. machines where both using areca controllers on RAID6 arrays.
> 2. This was a real machine and not a VM
> 
> One other thing of note when I first repaired this I booted from
> Install Disk #1 and used the same procedure for the sysinstall
> part from fixit and no corruption occured.
>

Pardon me showing up on hackers@ (I ain't one), but I have
to ask ....

So, when you do this, you are using /stand/sysinstall, or
**/usr**/sbin/sysinstall?

Kevin Kinsey

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