Re: ext3 - corrupt
On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 20:02:48 -0700 (PDT)
patrick <rpmq@yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- Klaus Imgrund <claus.imgrund@terra.com.br> wrote:
> > Well,
> > had a problem for some time when my machine was going overnight.
> > In the morning there was either a black screen where there used to
> > be a
> > desktop or a blank screen - could get anywhere any more.
> > Today it finally quit on me - filesystem corrupted.
> > My partitions go like this:
> >
> > /dev/hda1 fat
> > /dev/hda2 ext3 debian
> > /dev/hda3 swap
> > /dev/hda5 ext2 data
> > /dev/hda6 ext2 gentoo
> >
> > All partitions where mounted and only hda2 got corrupted - fixed it
> > from
> > gentoo.
> > The hdd is about 6 month old and doesn't give me any trouble at all
> > under normal conditions.
> > According to the logs the machine was doing nothing - no errormsg's.
> > The powersupply is ok.
> > I did have some strange lines in the root-terminal - no idea where
> > those
> > came from.
> > Since the install is pretty much hosed I am wondering what to do
> > next.
> > Go with ext3 again or try something else?
> > I'd appreciate it very much if anybody could give me an idea what is
> > going on here.
> >
> > Klaus
>
> I had the same thing happen recently, random file corruption on an
> ext3 partition then lost the entire partition table.
>
> I'm pretty sure the problem was with the hard drive tho, not ext3 as I
> had a second, identical IBM hd fail completely at the same time.
> (Third drive, a western digital was fine)
>
> FWIW, a friend who sells systems tells me he's seeing an awful lot of
> bad Fujitsu drives right now...
>
> Patrick.
>
Ok - but the thing is that all partitions where mounted and only
/dev/hda2 got hosed.
There aren't a lot of things working anymore there.The other partitions
are just fine - not one file corrupted there.
Thats what I don't understand.
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