From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger Subject: Re: Lost Files Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 14:01:55 +0100 Message-ID: <3F9FBA43.8000203@gmx.net> References: <200310290906.h9T96nsO020624@mail02.webpoint.co.at> <3F9FA820.80208@namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <3F9FA820.80208@namesys.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: Hans Reiser Cc: Alexander Waller , reiserfs-list@namesys.com, webmaster@webpoint.at Hans Reiser wrote: > Alexander Waller wrote: >=20 >> Hi ! >> Yesterday it was the third time I lost important files on a >> reiserfs-partition. >> This time I had a reasonable backup. >> So i could minimize the time my server was offline. >> I use S.u.S.E 8.2. >> The first to times reiserfsck was not able to repair any file. I found= >> all >> of them in the directory /lost+found, but that was not good for me. ( >> 11000 >> files there ) >> This time about 5000 files were in /lost+found and the rest in the rig= ht >> place. >> >> Is this a normal behavior or do you think I have a hardware problem ? >> Is the S.u.S.E implementation wrong ? >> Shall I change to ext3 ? ( It=B4s slower, I know ) >> >> Whats the right strategie to recover a defetive partition ? >> >> Alex. >> >> >> =20 >> > It is not normal. It is very likely to be hardware. Alex: Can you check /var/log/messages if there is any line containing "error", "oops" or something like that? Carl-Daniel --=20 http://www.hailfinger.org/