Subject: Re: lost+found not found?
From: Peter Q. Olsson (olsson@koyukuk.at.uaa.alaska.edu)
Date: Tue Oct 14 2003 - 21:27:19 AKDT
Josh-
While I can not really shed light on your particular problem as optined below,
I would have to say that we have had a good deal of experience with iomega
drives, both zip and jaz, and NONE of it has been pleasant. Mostly with jaz
drives since they got more use. These were SCSI drives too, so my experience
may or may not be pertinent. I would have to say that I have never seen
devices that can corrupt seemingly unrelated drives to the extent that Iomega
devices can.
They are bad juju for linux, IMO.
> 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
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