6 May
2004
6 May
'04
4:15 p.m.
Eric Dantan Rzewnicki <rzewnickie(a)rfa.org> writes:
> 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!
I really hope this isn't a hardware problem ...
I agree with Paul, it sure sounds like either bad RAM or a bad disk
(or disk controller). Try running memtest86 (it's a boot option).
--
joq