debian lockup, fsck fail ....
My woody ext2 totaly locked up, my win modem was dialing (I suspect the
driver) while I did a search on kmail for an e-mail :( .. well I guess
nothings perfect ...
I tried ctrl-alt-del ctrl-alt-f1,2,3 ... all dead. I had to power down and
re-boot.
On re-boot the system ran fsck which bommed out and told me to run fsck
manually.
I ran fsck -A, all ok it corrected loads, maybe 20 inodes then hit some ti
did not seem to know what to to with. It has dumped these in the /lost+found
directory. The contents of which is ...
debian:/# cd lost+found/
debian:/lost+found# ls
#212421 #212424 #212425 #212426 #212427 #212428 #98297
debian:/lost+found# ls -al
total 40
srwxr-xr-x 1 test test 0 Jan 15 18:00 #212421
-rw------- 1 test test 168 Jan 15 18:00 #212424
-rw------- 1 test test 168 Jan 15 18:00 #212425
-rw------- 1 test test 168 Jan 15 18:00 #212426
-rw------- 1 test test 168 Jan 15 18:00 #212427
-rw------- 1 test test 168 Jan 15 18:00 #212428
srw------- 1 test root 0 Jan 15 18:01 #98297
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Jan 2 17:46 .
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 Jan 2 18:22 ..
debian:/lost+found#
I also lost my kmail accounts which I have re-enterd.
Are the above lost files ? If so how do I know what is what and how do I put
them back ?
Can anyone point me to documentation about what is an inode, web searches for
info on inodes draws a blank. I would like to know more ?
As always any help gratefully appreciated
Dave
PS The system appears to work AOK now, even with all that has happened. Still
a bit disconcerting !!
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