From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 20 19:24:17 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC61B16A4D2 for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:24:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@dfwlp.com) Received: from regulus.dfwlp.com (rrcs-64-183-212-244.sw.biz.rr.com [64.183.212.244]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13B5B43CA0 for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:24:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@dfwlp.com) Received: from webmail.dfwlp.org (localhost.dfwlp.com [127.0.0.1]) by regulus.dfwlp.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id kBKJMmsh064343 for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 13:22:48 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from freebsd@dfwlp.com) Received: from 192.168.125.134 (SquirrelMail authenticated user jhorne) by webmail.dfwlp.org with HTTP; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 13:22:48 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3505.192.168.125.134.1166642568.squirrel@webmail.dfwlp.org> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 13:22:48 -0600 (CST) From: "Jonathan Horne" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.0 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.7 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) on regulus.dfwlp.com Subject: i lost some files X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:24:18 -0000 ... but not to worry, my backups are up to date. but what im perplexed about is, my file system graph has never taken a hit to show the amount of data that i think i lost. its nearly flatlined! now, over the past few days, ive had some trouble with some usb devices and system crashes, and my system has forced fsck on my 300GB drive several times over the past 7 days or so. right about now, im noticing a single directory missing. is it remotely possible, that all these crashings, and probably some files were open via NFS, that this directory has been corrupted to the point where the data might be there, but just totally invisible? since i figured a full reload on that volume wont hurt me, i wipe it. df -h shows: [jhorne@athena ~]$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on [snip] /dev/ad4s1g 227G 4.0K 209G 0% /opt 209 gigs available, 0% capacity... does that look correct? i forget how big the directory im looking for was, but i might have been about 15 gigs or so (eh... maybe not that big... i forget). either way, the 209 gigs has me perplexed for a bit here. anyone have some insight? thanks, jonathan