Messages in this thread | | | Subject | ext2fs clearing indirect blocks??? | Date | Mon, 21 Jul 1997 18:16:59 -0500 | From | root <> |
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Ok, I shot myself in the foot. I deleted all the files in a directory. Having shot myself in the foot before, I though "no sweat, pull out my old friend, "lde" (linux disk editor). This should be a milk run, since the files were on their own partition with no directory structure (except lost+found...) , and the whole thing was written sequentially, so there should be virtually no fragmentation. However, after unmounting and taking a look at it, much to my horror, all of the indirect blocks had been zeroed, including the 1x indirect blocks pointed to by the 2x indirect block. This is about to make recovery very, very annoying, though thanks to everything being unfragmented and the inodes intact, it should still be doable.
Anyway, this is surely incorrect behavoir. I am useing pre-2.0.31-2 + July 18 buffer patches + make menuconfig fix.
The last time I did something this stupid (well, just deleting one file, but it was an english paper...) the indirect blocks were *not* cleared.
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