Re: Cleaning my /usr/lost+found
E.L. Meijer \(Eric\) said
> >
> >
> > Howdy all!
> >
> > total 176014862730
> > b-w-r-xrw- 1 12597 17448 199, 228 Jun 6 2010 #85683
> > sr-x---r-T 1 38225 52884 18446744073400402084 Jan 4 1966 #85688
> > c----ws--T 1 47531 12439 159, 161 Mar 19 2003 #85731
>
> [...]
>
> > br-srwsr-x 1 13510 51690 138, 231 Aug 30 2001 #87654
> > b--Sr-Srwt 1 43570 54985 21, 26 Feb 19 1979 #87675
> > drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 1024 Dec 2 07:27 #98109
> >
> > Ok. I like a good challenge, but this is ridicules!!
>
> This shows your disk is severly screwed up. It is time to make a
> backup, and see if you can reformat the disk and reinstall. If you get
> errors like this again, I think you will have to regard the disk as
> `deceased'.
>
The funny (if that's the word) thing is, I once had a few errors on this
drive but WD's Tech Support walked me through test/diagnostics. The number
of errors then was "too low" for a warrenty repair. Thoug they said if I
had anymore erorrs it'd be covered under warranty. Looks like I get to
test WD's support. Joy.
> > I *know* that I could wipe out /usr and re-install all of my packages,
> > but that seems a little drastic.
>
> A broken hard disk is a drastic condition, I can tell from experience
> :(
It's a pain in the ^%#$!!
>
> > I've toyed around _very_ _carefully_
> > with lde and even tried using it to nix /usr/lost+found...next fsck
> > caught the files and put them back (+1...I'm assuming it was the original
> > /usr/lost+found/ entry...)
> >
> > Suggestions!?
>
> Try to reinstall. If your disk is so screwed up, you cannot expect to
> get a reliably working system repairing stuff by hand.
>
I'll give it a try after the holidays. It's only /usr...
> HTH,
Thanks for the feed-back!
> Eric
>
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