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SubjectRe: ext3 corruption
linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
> What is it that you are attempting to do?

Fix my filesystem.
Prevent this situation from happening for others, if at all possible.

> First you show us some text obtained while attempting
> to run fsck on the loop device,
> claiming that this was obtained from a 1TB file-system that
> was destroyed by Linux. Then you spend several days telling us
> that linux is no good. Enough is enough.

That was never really my point, apologies if it came across that way.

> If you had a 1TB file-system and you knew anything about Unix or
> Linux, it would have been fixed by now

What? Uh.
Well, whatever.

> -- and BTW, samba can't
> destroy a file-system, no matter how many files were open.

Never claimed that it did.

> The worse possible situation is that files, open for write, may
> not be completely written and this only for files that were
> being created or extended. You still have the original file-data
> and all the rest of the files on your file system.

Well, it doesn't mount, so they're kind of irretrievable right now.

> Another point... ext3 is a journaled file-system. Even when
> forced off by hitting the reset switch, ext3 will quietly
> announce "recovering from journal" and mount just fine.

Obviously that's not true.
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