Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 11:06:26 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: I've just had a massive file system crash Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030124110543.43965D-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20030124093754.GD2402@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com>
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Next time you run fsck -y in this scenario, log the output to an md partition and stick it somewhere for analysis. At least, that was the moral of the story last time I hosed a box in this form (incidentally, I think it ended up being a failing hard disk). Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Network Associates Laboratories On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Greg Lehey wrote: > I'm rather astounded. I'm currently at a Linux conference, and have > of course been boasting about the stability of ufs, and today I had a > crash which tore apart my /home file system. > > This is on a laptop, one which has been running -CURRENT for years > with no trouble. At the moment it's running 5.0-RELEASE. Today I > shut it down cleanly, and a couple of hours later rebooted it. 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. > > Obviously it's too late to work out what happened, but I thought it's > worth mentioning in case somebody else is having the same trouble. > > Greg > -- > See complete headers for address and phone numbers > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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