RE: [cobalt-users] apology... i think...

["Phil Beynon" <Infolink@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Barbara wrote:
>
> > Not sure this will help, but here goes - use at your
> > own risk.  :-)
>
> While I still don't see how overfilling root could destroy only one file
> and no other, I'm now beginning to see the logic of Barbara's answer;
> based on the symptoms, it's "an httpd conf" file and not as I misread it
> THE httpd.conf file.  So it could work, and worth trying.
>
> BUT  ... and it's a BIG BUT ...
>
> I'd still worry about whether any other files were overwritten/destroyed
> as well.
>
> Jeff

The only system I've ever seen where that sort of thing could happen "by
itself" was on an old Altos Xenix box where it simply ran out of inodes and
went off and started from one again thus splatting all the root files.
More likely this was some sort of disk partition file corruption fault where
it just went mad on the disk.

Phil

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