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SubjectRe: HD Corruption, recovering I-Nodes ?
On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 10:07:01PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > with Mandrake 6.1 distro (standard Mandrake kernel 2.2.9 + SMP). The
^^^ wrong, he has 6.0 !
> > box is used as a desktop (light load, no reboots).
>
> This is a mandrake bug. They dont start update so data isnt flushed to disk
> They have released new init scripts to fix this.

I went to the Mandrake web site looking for updates. I must
admit that I'm not very familiar with it (I use Debian), but I could
not find any mention of this very important bug and the init scripts
packages are supposed to correct other unrelated bugs.
Hum... I guess that either I should apply all update and cross
my fingers, or I should contact them...

> > However, during the 3 weeks, my boss was able to read/compile
> > all those files and work with them normally, so I believe that only
> > the metadata was corrupted by the data itself was OK.
>
> Im afraid he's probably lost the lot.

Yep, you were right on the spot. Too much memory in a PC can
be a disadvantage.

> Alan

Thanks again, Alan, you are a benediction ;-)


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On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 11:32:59PM +0100, Jens Benecke wrote:
>
> Midnight commander has an "undelfs" built in. Go to Command/Undelete files
> (ext2fs only), then input your device. (it should be mounted read-only for
> safety) You will be presented with the inode numbers of deleted files, and
> can e.g. search in them (F9-C-F).
>
> You can also use debugfs if you don't want/have/.. mc..

Yes, that's what we did. I discover that there was a
ext2fs-undelete mini Howto which relate to that problem.
Unfortunately, Alan was right. The files were not deleted, but
never written to the disk. So, when we were dumping the inodes, we
were getting only some junk. Too bad...

Jean

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