tanya@adds.newyork.NCR.COM (Tanya Katz) (04/22/89)
In article <8904181249.AA22934@zorch.UU.NET> scott@zorch.UU.NET (Scott Hazen Mueller) writes: (for David Melman) >The question: > >How can the system allow the removal of the boot floppy (and stay up) >so the readable files off the hard disk can be backed up to the floppy >drive? > In <513@uncle.UUCP> (John B. Milton) replied: >Well, looks like you've got quite a problem. My suggestion would be to get the >hard disk patched up to the point that you can get it mounted again. When you >say that it won't boot, that seems strange. Try running fsck -y /dev/fp002, I've often wondered the same thing myself... You have to do regular backups!! I noticed early on that a power outage caused me to enter into the check-boot-check loop, and I had to go the floppy boot route. The first time I managed to blow away my rc file and had to reload all. But when it happened again, I was a bit more rational and managed to comment out the fsck in the rc file and boot up without the fsck. I made a floppy filesystem that has fsck on it, and it is not write protected, so I could use vi. I keep several of these spare file systems handy (one has fsdb) for real heavy duty emergencies. After booting with the floppy and exiting to the shell, I type in mount <Return> and see what is mounted & where the mount point is. Then umount /dev/fp002 and use fsck. I don't use the -y option though. This prevents the removal of files that have data in them. I do make note of the inode & search for the file names using ncheck or find -inum. Most of the time the problem has been very minor and easily repairable by fsck. You can even rescue your files from lost+found, if you can identify them. I suppose I should invest in a ups, but until I do, this is my recovery method. Tanya ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ### ###### ###### ##### Tanya Katz (516) 231-5400 x430 # # # # # # # # # # # # # ##### ...uunet!ncrlnk!adds!tanya ####### # # # # # tanya.katz@adds.newyork.ncr.com # # ###### ###### ##### Applied Digital Data Systems, Inc. 100 Marcus Blvd., Hauppauge, NY 11788 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------