From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 24 9:16:41 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 A946F37B401; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 09:16:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.thinkburst.com (juno.geocomm.com [204.214.64.110]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3FF643F3F; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 09:16:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jbozza@thinkburst.com) Received: from mailgate.thinkburstmedia.com (gateway.thinkburstmedia.com [204.214.64.100]) by mail.thinkburst.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A55036797; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 11:13:21 -0600 (CST) Received: from sigma.geocomm.com (sigma.geocomm.com [10.1.1.5]) by mailgate.thinkburstmedia.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AADB6; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 11:16:31 -0600 (CST) Received: by sigma.geocomm.com (Postfix, from userid 805) id 44C8D24502; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 11:16:31 -0600 (CST) Received: from bozza (dhcp00.geocomm.com [10.1.1.100]) by sigma.geocomm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B8D824500; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 11:16:30 -0600 (CST) From: "Jaime Bozza" To: "'Robert Watson'" , "'Greg Lehey'" Cc: Subject: RE: I've just had a massive file system crash Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 11:14:03 -0600 Message-ID: <038d01c2c3cb$fe6cb630$6401010a@bozza> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4510 In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal X-Sanitizer: ThinkBurst Media, Inc. mail filter 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 >three file systems, one of which came up dirty. fsck -y reported=20 >thousands of errors, and when it was finished, my home directory and=20 >some other files were gone, and all the subdirectories of my home=20 This may (or may not) have anything to do with it, but I had a problem with a couple of filesystem back in September that had the error: (Running on RELENG_4 that was very recent at the time) CG 22: BAD MAGIC NUMBER fsck -y gave thousands of errors (similar to what you had) and when it was done, nothing was on the filesystem. (I didn't think to check lost+found at the time, just restored the filesystem, so the files may have been placed in there) During the space of 2 days, I had a total of 3 of these on two different systems. Forcing a mount (without cleaning) on the other two showed a perfect filesystem (which I backed up, newfs'd and restored). I even compared one of these with a backup and there wasn't a single thing different. It sort of baffled me at the time, since one of those filesystems didn't have any writing (other than atime perhaps) and still had the error. I haven't had a problem since then, and I know there are quite a bit of changes between 4 and 5, but it really does sound similar. At least the fsck part sounds almost exactly the same. Jaime bozza To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message