Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 15 Jan 2001 15:40:53 +0200 (EET) | From | Heikki Lindholm <> | Subject | Total loss with 2.4.0 (release) |
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Hi all,
I managed to kill my dear files and if anyone can help I'd be very thankful. The events leading to this were something like: Happy system with 2.4.0-test9 -> update to 2.4.0 (release) -> works nicely; no complaints of any kind (no crc errors or dma-disabling) -> reboot -> play Diablo II for some time (win98) -> restart linux -> VFS: cannot mount root. I have two ext2 partitions plus root and one of them is on another disk (same ide lead, however) and it survived with no errors.
When I ran e2fsck (1.18) on root partition, in addition to having to run it many times before succeeding (segfaulted sometimes), nothing was left in the partition except lost+found with lots of files. Valid superblock wasn't found at 0, but at 8193.
I really don't get what would have caused this or how to cure it. I still have my /home in need of repairing, but I won't be running fsck on it with this good expectancy-of-recovery (I actually tried once with a backup on another disk and it resulted two VERY old directoried, everything else was lost...and found(?)).
I also updated my machine from VIA MVP3 based K6II to VIA KT133 (with 868B southbridge - ATA100, that is) based Duron, but linux (2.4.0-test9) worked fine with both configurations. I think this might be some sort of DMA problem.
I read from kernel notes that ac1 fixes root umount handling. Might that be connected with the symptoms I had? If anyone has any suggestions, please post them. I would, at least, like to know how could I verify if the filesystem is really messed (for example, overwritten with something at the bus at the time) or if it's just some minor issue that confuses fsck totally.
-- Heikki Lindholm
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