From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 24 1:38: 1 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCC2E37B401 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 01:37:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (snat-2.public.linux.conf.au [130.95.169.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA1D543F1E for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 01:37:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: from sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (grog@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0O9bunf002855 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 17:37:56 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from grog@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0O9btF9002854 for current@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 17:37:55 +0800 (WST) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 17:37:55 +0800 From: Greg Lehey To: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: I've just had a massive file system crash Message-ID: <20030124093754.GD2402@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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