[comp.sys.att] ATT 3B2/400 question on filesystems disappearing

lenny@icus.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano) (07/11/88)

In article <403@uniblab.UUCP> paul@uniblab.UUCP (paul wolmering) writes:
|>hello,
|>	we've had our 3b2 for almost 2.5 years, it's configured with
|>2 72M HD, 3 150M HD, 2M ram and asorted modems for telecom. all we
|>use the machine for is a online database storage and all our printers
|>are hanging off of it. all the other xenix machines in the office tie 
|>into the 3b2 for printing and getting info. 
|>
|>	question: when i come in on monday to read news/mail, three of 
|>the six filesystems are gone, completly. Why???? 
|>
...
Hmmm, it sounds like the system crashed (possibly power failure) and then
someone brought it up.  Maybe the filesystems weren't mounted?  Did you
add your filesystems to /etc/fstab so they are mounted when the
system is booted.  When you say the six filesystems are gone, do you
mean the data too?

-Lenny

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