From owner-freebsd-fs Sun Jun 23 9:20:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53.attbi.com [204.127.198.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 740C837B40C; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 09:20:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from InterJet.elischer.org ([12.232.206.8]) by rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020623162011.RJYS11659.rwcrmhc53.attbi.com@InterJet.elischer.org>; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 16:20:11 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA47133; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 09:15:15 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 09:15:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: vadim@e-complex.ru Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: File system failure! URGENT Help needed! In-Reply-To: <1577698468.20020623150139@e-complex.ru> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I suspect that data to both drives was written to both drives.. :-( My suspicion is that some unknown amount of data was irretrievably lost. The mantra of sysads is always: "Do a full backup before changing the hardware" On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 vadim@e-complex.ru wrote: > Hi All! > > After adding new drive to system 2 of old drives was installed on > one cable, and (by fatal flaw) both as slave. And after FBSD is booted it writed > identical information onto both of that drivers simultaneously. > As a result both filesystems is down. After that fsck was runed... > and now very important data is lost. > > is was from words of the system administrator. > > Is it possible to recover data? I understand what I give you very > small information, but it is all of I know. > > there is an example: > > newserver# ls /backup/ > Distr Profiles all buh home pto smeta > newserver# ls -i /backup/ > ls: all: Bad file descriptor > ls: buh: Bad file descriptor > ls: smeta: Bad file descriptor > 6007573 Distr 14348288 Profiles 7936 home 12054848 pto > > It is obvious, that the part of inodes was lost. How can we restore > it? May be, it is possible to recover that by info what is in the > files? > > Thank you in advance, and sorry for a bad English. > > Vl. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message