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 - -- rivers@dignus.com Work: (919) 676-0847 Get your mainframe programming tools at http://www.dignus.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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