Subject: lost+found not found?
From: Joshua Kugler (jk@as.uaf.edu)
Date: Tue Oct 14 2003 - 16:11:55 AKDT
Interesting problem...
[Details provided for diagnostics sake. This is all (pretty much)
chronological]
A while back, when I logged in, I was getting this error:
ldm_validate_partition_table( ): disk read failed
Well, a little googling told me I should reformat/reinstall with a possibly
with a new hard drive.
Just for fun, I backed up, and did a shutdown -F (force fsck next boot)
On reboot, it fsck'ed, and told me there were no lost+found directories, so it
created them. There were a couple other errors too. So, it fixed them. But
then on boot, there were files missing (like, oh, libcrypt.so, for instance).
So obviously something went haywire.
So I put in a new harddrive and reinstalled. Then I got the messages again.
This time, I did what I should have, dug in /var/log/messages, and googled
some more, and found out that ZIP drives can sometimes cause those errors,
and there is one in this machine.
BUT! If I look in /, /usr, /var, or /home, there are no lost+found
directories, which indicates something is a bit odd.
Can anyone offer any advice? The system runs fine. No disk access errors,
bad blocks doesn't return anything. But when I reboot and fsck, things go
nuts. Will it this time too, or was the corruption last time truly a bad
drive, and the ldm_validate errors were purely coincidental?
Thanks!
- Joshua
-- Joshua Kugler Assistant Systems Administrator UAF Department of Math and Sciences UAF LUG President --------- To unsubscribe, send email to <aklug-request@aklug.org> with 'unsubscribe' in the message body.
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