From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 24 8: 6:36 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 67EE337B401; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 08:06:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C84C643E4A; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 08:06:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.12.6/8.12.5) with SMTP id h0OG6RP4083162; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 11:06:28 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 11:06:26 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Greg Lehey Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: I've just had a massive file system crash In-Reply-To: <20030124093754.GD2402@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 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