On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 01:13:30PM -0400, Paul Winkler wrote:
On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 12:42:43PM -0400, Eric Dantan
Rzewnicki wrote:
I managed to get my system back (though I'm
pretty sure it's not in good
order). My file system was a total mess. There were around 2000 items in
/lost+found. sed, tar, and vi (at least) were completely missing. man
was rsync. My dpkg/apt database was totally hosed. Much of what should
have been symlinks under /etc/alternatives/ was some sort of data file.
And so on, and so on ...
Eeeyuck. That sounds like what happened to me when a
hardware
failure (bad RAM) totally hosed my ext2 filesystem a few years back.
The inodes were basically randomized.
Glad you got the important stuff back!
yuck is right. :-}
I wasn't too worried, my audio is all on a separate drive, that
fortunately didn't get scrambled at all as far as I can see.
I still need to make sure some of my ecasound eci python scripts I've
been working on are still ok. I think they are.
I really hope this isn't a hardware problem ...
-Eric Rz.