Subject: Re: lost+found not found?
From: Joshua Kugler (jk@as.uaf.edu)
Date: Tue Oct 14 2003 - 16:56:22 AKDT
Sorry...didn't include other details...
PIII 1GHz
256MB RAM
20GB IDE drive
Mandrake 9.1
I've not had this missing lost+found problem on other Mdk 9.1 systems.
j----- k-----
On Tuesday 14 October 2003 04:11 pm, Joshua Kugler wrote:
> 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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