From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 24 4: 2:41 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 A911837B401; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 04:02:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from dignus.com (ip-64-32-254-102.dsl.iad.megapath.net [64.32.254.102]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B953743F18; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 04:02:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rivers@dignus.com) Received: from lakes.dignus.com (lakes.dignus.com [10.0.0.3]) by dignus.com (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id h0OBll073011; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 06:47:47 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from rivers@dignus.com) Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes.dignus.com (8.11.6/8.11.3) id h0OBrf654388; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 06:53:41 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from rivers) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 06:53:41 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <200301241153.h0OBrf654388@lakes.dignus.com> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG, grog@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I've just had a massive file system crash In-Reply-To: <20030124093754.GD2402@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> 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 Greg Lehey 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