Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 05:37:11 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: dwalton@acm.org Cc: fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: corrupted filesystem Message-ID: <3A17D787.68A9E27C@elischer.org> References: <3A174EA5.24115.102AB11@localhost>
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Dave Walton wrote:
>
> On 19 Nov 2000, at 0:59, Julian Elischer wrote:
>
> > probably. Soft updates would have limitted he damage to files
> > created/extended in the last 30 seconds.
>
> Note to self: Remember to turn on softupdates.
>
> > Dave Walton wrote:
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > > fsdb (inum: 2)> ls
> > > slot 16 ino 3039518 reclen 16: directory, `home'
> > > fsdb (inum: 2)> cd home
> > > component `home': current inode: regular file
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > Ok, now I'm really confused! First fsdb reports home as a
> > > directory, but when I cd into it, it becomes a regular file? How can
> > > that be?
> >
> > no, it is still a regular file..
> > 'cd' in fsdb just makes it the 'current' inode.
>
> I understand that. But if you look at the short excerpt from fsdb
> above, it specifically says "directory" when I do ls. But after I cd to
> it, fsdb says "regular file". Quite a contradiction.
there is a file/dir bit in the directory as well
obviously they disagree..
hopefully if you can run fsck -y you can find the inodes of the
user's individual directories when they are put in lost+found
>
> > It's possible that the real inode is floating around somewhere,
> > 'unattached'.
> > or maybe the 'data' is correct but the inode is wrong.
>
> Either way, any tips for tracking down the real contents of home?
>
> > can you 'ls' it?
>
> Nope. It seems to act just like a normal file, except when I do an
> ls on it's parent in fsdb.
>
> Dave
>
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> Dave Walton dwalton@acm.org
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