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Date:      Fri, 24 Jan 2003 06:53:41 -0500 (EST)
From:      Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com>
To:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, grog@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: I've just had a massive file system crash
Message-ID:  <200301241153.h0OBrf654388@lakes.dignus.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030124093754.GD2402@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com>

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Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote:
> It has
> three file systems, one of which came up dirty.  fsck -y reported
> thousands of errors, and when it was finished, my home directory and
> some other files were gone, and all the subdirectories of my home
> directory were in lost+found, a total of 1.4 GB.  Most of the errors
> appear to be duplicate Inode numbers.
> 

 Don't be too hasty to blame UFS.

 Everytime this has happened to me (even on Linux) it has been
 because the disk drive was failing.  It has happened to me
 *many* times with IDE drives.   I wind up replacing about 1/4
 of them every year, on average.   But, I did go through
 a "run" of those bad IBM drives :-)

 Did you happen to drop the laptop? :-)

	- Dave Rivers -

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