I have been running gentoo AMD-64 on my R3000Z from the get go (about two years now). About four months ago I began stumbling across filesystem problems.
In my case, I suspect hardware - which in fact is what I think might be happening to you. First, what filesystem are you using? You mentioned Ubuntu so I'm going to guess ext3? On Wednesday 18 October 2006 15:16, John Jason Jordan wrote: > In contrast, I have used NTFS on > Windows NT/2000 computers since I built my first NT computer in > October, 1993. NTFS has *never* given me a corrupted filesystem. That doesn't really mean anything. I have used reiserfs on various laptops, servers, and workstations and never experienced corrupted filesystems. A more pertinent question would be, "Have you used NTFS on this particular hardware?" Anyway, a discussion of NTFS vs ext3 vs reiserfs vs whatever is probably off-topic, but I think it's safe to say that from a technology perspective they are all, on average, equally good. > > A couple months ago, in order to gain better speed, I swapped out the > original 60 GB hard disk that came with this computer for a new > ultra-fast 80 GB hard disk. However, the filesystem corruption problems > continue. In other words, the problem is evidently not in the hard > disk. It may be in the controller or its driver, however. A-ha! You might have hit on something there. It might very well be the controller. FWIW, a faster hard drive in a laptop is usually more "fragile", too. In otherwords, if you experience issues that you suspect are hardware related, swapping out for a slower drive is usually better. > So I am posting this hoping that someone here has a clue what might be > going on. Has anyone else experienced problems like this? Does anyone > suspect (as I do) that the missing folders and the filesystem > corruption are related? Quite likely they are. Try keeping an eye on your system logs (as root, "tail -f /var/log/messages") in a console. See if you can re-create the filesystem weirdness (say popping in a CD and browse in a file browser) and check if any noise appears in the logs, in particular any errors about fileseek/access on /dev/hdc (for example). If you do, it's a good indication of h/w issues... (or of course, the CD might be damaged, but I guess that's a h/w issue, too). Try using other CDs. Try also doing a "find /" as root - this will list every single file on your harddrive and is also a quick-and-dirty way to see if any files are sitting on top of bad clusters/nodes/whatever. Cheers -=R _______________________________________________ LinuxR3000 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 Wiki at http://prinsig.se/weekee/
