Filesystem completely hosed
Hello,
some time ago I reported frequent file system corruptions after
extensive write operations (installing large packages).
I thought that something might be wrong with the file system, so I
re-formatted it and then restored my GNU/Hurd installation (running
native-install etc.)
Today I tried out if anything had changed - I tried reinstalling some
large packages (which had been damaged by previous crashes): xfree-*,
tetex-bin, tetex-doc, tetex-base.
The result was truely disastrous. At some point, while initex was
running the machine froze. (No error message anywhere, probably because
I was using the new virtual consoles while the errors get displayed to
the old mach console?) Immediately before the machine froze, I
observered that ext2fs.static consumed 34% CPU time. Is this normal?
I could only pull the plug (no second computer available to telnet to my
box.). On reboot (to GNU/Hurd), fsck complained about an unexpected
inconsistency, restarted several times from the beginning and then the
machine suddenly rebooted. On trying to boot GNU/Hurd, grub informed me
that there was no such thing as /boot/gnumach.gz. So I booted GNU/Linux
and fscked again. I have a typescript of this available but even in
bzipped format it is still 49K large (uncompressed 400K).
Well, in the end, my / directory was _empty_, except for lost+found,
from where I have recovered some of the installation. (I don't have
GNU/Hurd CDs here.)
Here's the output of tune2fs -l /dev/hdc7
tune2fs 1.32 (09-Nov-2002)
Filesystem volume name: <none>
Last mounted on: <not available>
Filesystem UUID: 2ce47e2f-64b2-4c0c-b3c1-c14714edd6ad
Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53
Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic)
Filesystem features: sparse_super
Default mount options: (none)
Filesystem state: not clean
Errors behavior: Continue
Filesystem OS type: GNU/Hurd
Inode count: 120576
Block count: 240967
Reserved block count: 12048
Free blocks: 61975
Free inodes: 81958
First block: 0
Block size: 4096
Fragment size: 4096
Blocks per group: 32768
Fragments per group: 32768
Inodes per group: 15072
Inode blocks per group: 471
Filesystem created: Fri Feb 28 15:20:19 2003
Last mount time: Fri Mar 7 17:58:40 2003
Last write time: Fri Mar 7 18:22:29 2003
Mount count: 1
Maximum mount count: 31
Last checked: Fri Mar 7 17:58:30 2003
Check interval: 15552000 (6 months)
Next check after: Wed Sep 3 18:58:30 2003
Reserved blocks uid: 0 (user root)
Reserved blocks gid: 0 (group root)
First inode: 11
Inode size: 128
Any hints someone?
Thanks,
Johannes
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