From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 22 05:05:31 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80D0016A403 for ; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 05:05:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from e.schuele@computer.org) Received: from alnrmhc11.comcast.net (alnrmhc11.comcast.net [204.127.225.91]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BEC713C44C for ; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 05:05:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from e.schuele@computer.org) Received: from [192.168.214.215] (cpe-76-184-133-124.tx.res.rr.com[76.184.133.124]) by comcast.net (alnrmhc11) with ESMTP id <20061222045528b1100k1n54e>; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 04:55:28 +0000 Message-ID: <458B653F.60302@computer.org> Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 22:55:27 -0600 From: Eric Schuele User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061218) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathan Horne References: <3505.192.168.125.134.1166642568.squirrel@webmail.dfwlp.org> In-Reply-To: <3505.192.168.125.134.1166642568.squirrel@webmail.dfwlp.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: i lost some files X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 05:05:31 -0000 On 12/20/2006 13:22, Jonathan Horne wrote: > ... but not to worry, my backups are up to date. > > but what im perplexed about is, my file system graph has never taken a hit > to show the amount of data that i think i lost. its nearly flatlined! > > now, over the past few days, ive had some trouble with some usb devices > and system crashes, and my system has forced fsck on my 300GB drive > several times over the past 7 days or so. right about now, im noticing a > single directory missing. is it remotely possible, that all these > crashings, and probably some files were open via NFS, that this directory > has been corrupted to the point where the data might be there, but just > totally invisible? > > since i figured a full reload on that volume wont hurt me, i wipe it. df > -h shows: > > [jhorne@athena ~]$ df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > [snip] > /dev/ad4s1g 227G 4.0K 209G 0% /opt > > 209 gigs available, 0% capacity... does that look correct? i forget how > big the directory im looking for was, but i might have been about 15 gigs > or so (eh... maybe not that big... i forget). either way, the 209 gigs > has me perplexed for a bit here. anyone have some insight? Could this be your 8% above? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#DISK-MORE-THAN-FULL ... though I guess yours is less than empty. :) > > thanks, > jonathan > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Regards, Eric