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Old 02-02-2008
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Originally Posted by System Shock
You are in Rockville.. that total loss of power, did it happen in a data center around Beltsville, by any chance?
The data center was in Rockville which I would not say is "around Beltsville" but your milage may vary. It used to be that I both lived and worked in Rockville. Now I live in Rockville but work in Sterling, Va. I'm not sure what to put in my profile now.
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Old 02-02-2008
^^^ Warp Drive Smilie

ranjtech, I don't know how or when, but you have ended up with a filesystem larger than the slice on which it resides. I'm guessing someone was playing with fmthard, that being the case there is a reasonable chance that if you can put things back exactly as they were ( if you saved the prtvtoc from the source disk for example ) that you can recover the situation.

That being said you should have backups, the question of reinstallation should not even arise. If you don't have backups, it's time to start.
# 10  
Old 02-02-2008
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Originally Posted by Perderabo
The data center was in Rockville which I would not say is "around Beltsville" but your milage may vary. It used to be that I both lived and worked in Rockville. Now I live in Rockville but work in Sterling, Va. I'm not sure what to put in my profile now.
I asked, because I lived in the District for many years, worked in Herndon with PSINet, and I remember something like the power loss you describe happening to Degex, a data center that was between Beltsville and Laurel. That was some time ago, though..
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