Re: lost+found dir placement

2012-03-13 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:02:16 + (UTC), jb wrote:
> Robert Bonomi  mail.r-bonomi.com> writes:
> 
> > ... 
> > The fsck_ffs manpage says that 'lost+found' is _created_ *when*needed*,
> > in the root of a filesystem, if not already present. 
> > 
> > The presense of /mnt/lost+found is _not_ an error.  just a surperfluous
> > file that ended up there 'somehow'.
> > ...
> 
> This worried me. And still does ...

How "clean" is your installation?

If you have had mounted some UFS file system in /mnt
that has undergone a fsck check where the creation
of lost+found had been neccessary... no wait, it would
be on that partition then. If this directory entry is
present in /mnt which is supposed to be empty by
default, e. g. if "mount" doesn't show something
actually mounted on /mnt, then I think you should
delete the directory entry. Just imagine the "fun"
that could happen if you mount something to /mnt...

However, do you remember _what_ created lost+found
in /mnt?



> > *IF* you're going to file a PR, it should be for the filesystem 
> > initialization process -- which "should" (a) create the lost+found
> > directory, (b) create some 'reasonable' number of files in that directory,
> > and (c) then delete all those files.  This ensures that the directory
> > exists and has disk-space allocated for a 'reasonable' number of 
> > 'recovered' file entries.
> > 
> 
> That's perhaps why under Linux they have special mklost+found entry ?

Nothing new. In fact, I remember that my WEGA (UNIX system III
derivate) mentiones a command that would create the lost+found
directory, mklf or createlf... as a binary.



> > The existing fsck_ffs has a catastrophic failure mode if there is no
> > space on the disk for the lost+found directory to grow to acomodate
> > the recovered file entries.
> > 
> 
> I was surprised to find empty lost+found dir in /mnt.
> drwx--   2 root  wheel  512 May  5  2011 lost+found
> That's why I jumped a bit.

It's fully unsurprising to be surprised here. :-)



> Few days ago, after clean reboot to single user mode, I tested fsck manually
> on SUJ fs and found things that seemed to be questionable (I posted it on
> current@ list, if you want to take a look).
> 
> So, it must have happened during that time, because as I said I did not have
> any forced fsck run at boot times, and I almost swear I did not have this
> lost+found dir in /mnt before.

Possible, but in a normal case, lost+found is tied to
a partition (and per implication to a mountpoint). The
mountpoint, if _not_ in use, should be empty.



> I will take a look at source code of fsck* entries and perhaps find a clue.

I posted the file name where you can find the handling of the
creation of lost+found. Just search for this string and you'll
find the corresponding section easily.




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Re: lost+found dir placement

2012-03-13 Thread jb
Robert Bonomi  mail.r-bonomi.com> writes:

> ... 
> The fsck_ffs manpage says that 'lost+found' is _created_ *when*needed*,
> in the root of a filesystem, if not already present. 
> 
> The presense of /mnt/lost+found is _not_ an error.  just a surperfluous
> file that ended up there 'somehow'.
> ...

This worried me. And still does ...

> *IF* you're going to file a PR, it should be for the filesystem 
> initialization process -- which "should" (a) create the lost+found
> directory, (b) create some 'reasonable' number of files in that directory,
> and (c) then delete all those files.  This ensures that the directory
> exists and has disk-space allocated for a 'reasonable' number of 
> 'recovered' file entries.
> 

That's perhaps why under Linux they have special mklost+found entry ?

> The existing fsck_ffs has a catastrophic failure mode if there is no
> space on the disk for the lost+found directory to grow to acomodate
> the recovered file entries.
> 

I was surprised to find empty lost+found dir in /mnt.
drwx--   2 root  wheel  512 May  5  2011 lost+found
That's why I jumped a bit.

Few days ago, after clean reboot to single user mode, I tested fsck manually
on SUJ fs and found things that seemed to be questionable (I posted it on
current@ list, if you want to take a look).

So, it must have happened during that time, because as I said I did not have
any forced fsck run at boot times, and I almost swear I did not have this
lost+found dir in /mnt before.

I will take a look at source code of fsck* entries and perhaps find a clue.
jb


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Re: lost+found dir placement

2012-03-13 Thread Robert Bonomi

jb  wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Each fs should have its own lost+found directory.
> It is used by fsck for placing recovered corrupted fs files in there.
> This implies the dir must have already existed (it may not be mounted ad hoc
> e.g. at boot time, during fs recovery).
>  
> In FreeBSD 9, I found lost+found dir under /mnt.
> This is incorrect - /mnt is defined under all standards (Filesystem Hierarchy 
> Standard, Unix directory structure) as "contains filesystem mount points".
>
> So, lost+found dir should exist under root dir as /lost+found.

Do you have a filesystem mounted on /mnt? 
>
> Any comments before I file a PR request ?

The fsck_ffs manpage says that 'lost+found' is _created_ *when*needed*,
in the root of a filesystem, if not already present. 

The presense of /mnt/lost+found is _not_ an error.  just a surperfluous
file that ended up there 'somehow'.

*IF* you're going to file a PR, it should be for the filesystem 
initialization process -- which "should" (a) create the lost+found
directory, (b) create some 'reasonable' number of files in that directory,
and (c) then delete all those files.  This ensures that the directory
exists and has disk-space allocated for a 'reasonable' number of 
'recovered' file entries.

The existing fsck_ffs has a catastrophic failure mode if there is no
space on the disk for the lost+found directory to grow to acomodate
the recovered file entries.


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Re: lost+found dir placement

2012-03-13 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 07:58:09 + (UTC), jb wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Each fs should have its own lost+found directory.
> It is used by fsck for placing recovered corrupted fs files in there.

Correct.



> This implies the dir must have already existed (it may not be mounted ad hoc
> e.g. at boot time, during fs recovery).

No. This implication does not exist.

If I read /usr/src/sbin/fsck_ffs/dir.c correctly, the
lost+found/ directory will be created by fsck if it is
required and _not_ present. It will do so on a inode
based method (instead of utilizing a file system oriented
call to make a directory). This is a requirement because
(as you correctly mentioned) the partition checked will
not be writable (or even be mounted), so mkdir() and
related fs functions cannot be used.

Also see an evidence for that idea in "man fsck_ffs".



> In FreeBSD 9, I found lost+found dir under /mnt.
> This is incorrect - /mnt is defined under all standards (Filesystem Hierarchy 
> Standard, Unix directory structure) as "contains filesystem mount points".

According to "man hier" (mandatory for interpreting the
file system hierarchy on FreeBSD) this your assumption
sounds correct: /mnt is explained to be an "empty directory
commonly used by system administrators as a temporary mount
point", so having a lost+found/ directory in there doesn't
seem to have any purpose and looks wrong.



> So, lost+found dir should exist under root dir as /lost+found.

Correct. It will be assigned to the results of possible
recoveries of lost data of the / partition correctly.



> Any comments before I file a PR request ?

If this directory has been created by the installation
process, I think you should. Maybe you verify the issue
on the freebsd-fs@ list?



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Re: lost+found dir placement

2012-03-13 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 2:58 AM, jb  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Each fs should have its own lost+found directory.
> It is used by fsck for placing recovered corrupted fs files in there.
> This implies the dir must have already existed (it may not be mounted ad
> hoc
> e.g. at boot time, during fs recovery).
>
> In FreeBSD 9, I found lost+found dir under /mnt.
> This is incorrect - /mnt is defined under all standards (Filesystem
> Hierarchy
> Standard, Unix directory structure) as "contains filesystem mount points".
>
> So, lost+found dir should exist under root dir as /lost+found.
>
> Any comments before I file a PR request ?
> jb
>

The directory is created in the top of the filesystem, so you should check
what is mounted on /mnt.

Filesystem Hierarchy Standard --  This is a Linux standard.  For info on
FreeBSD hierarchy see man hier(7)

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lost+found dir placement

2012-03-13 Thread jb
Hi,

Each fs should have its own lost+found directory.
It is used by fsck for placing recovered corrupted fs files in there.
This implies the dir must have already existed (it may not be mounted ad hoc
e.g. at boot time, during fs recovery).
 
In FreeBSD 9, I found lost+found dir under /mnt.
This is incorrect - /mnt is defined under all standards (Filesystem Hierarchy 
Standard, Unix directory structure) as "contains filesystem mount points".

So, lost+found dir should exist under root dir as /lost+found.

Any comments before I file a PR request ?
jb


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Re: lost+found

2009-05-04 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 4 May 2009 11:08:04 +0200, Ruben de Groot  wrote:
> Probably because the # is interpreted as comment. I can reproduce this
> in a bourne shell; not in (t)csh.

Ah, thank you. According to the prompt, it didn't look
like csh in the first place, but not like plain sh, too.
Customized bash prompts usually include brackets 'n stuff.

Because I'm using csh mostly, I didn't see the problem
that "cd #something" == "cd" (which of course leads
to $HOME).

An attempt to "rm #12345" in sh / bash should lead to
an error message (for incomplete rm command).

It's safe to use the Midnight Commander to cd into and
rm #something files and directories. :-)




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Re: lost+found

2009-05-04 Thread Alexander Tarasov
"#" - is a comment..
in bash "cd" without dirname always return you to a home-directory..
"cd -" returns you to previous location, for example..

2009/5/4 Ruben de Groot 

> On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 11:06:27PM +0200, Polytropon typed:
> > On Sat, 02 May 2009 15:45:13 -0400, PJ  wrote:
> > > [~]# cd /tmp/lost+found/#123456
> > > [/tmp/lost+found/#123456]# ls
> >
> > Okay, it's empty.
> >
> >
> >
> > > [/tmp/lost+found/#123456]# cd ..
> >
> > Strange, why does .. lead you from /tmp/lost+found/#123456
> > to /tmp/lost+found/#123456, just as if cd wasn't executed?
> >
> >
> >
> > > [/tmp/lost+found/#123456]# cd #123456 this returns and empty directory)
> >
> > Does /tmp/lost+found/#123456 contain another #123456? And
> > why does this cd lead you to your (root's) home directory?
>
> Probably because the # is interpreted as comment. I can reproduce this
> in a bourne shell; not in (t)csh.
>
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Re: lost+found

2009-05-04 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 11:06:27PM +0200, Polytropon typed:
> On Sat, 02 May 2009 15:45:13 -0400, PJ  wrote:
> > [~]# cd /tmp/lost+found/#123456
> > [/tmp/lost+found/#123456]# ls
> 
> Okay, it's empty.
> 
> 
> 
> > [/tmp/lost+found/#123456]# cd ..
> 
> Strange, why does .. lead you from /tmp/lost+found/#123456
> to /tmp/lost+found/#123456, just as if cd wasn't executed?
> 
> 
> 
> > [/tmp/lost+found/#123456]# cd #123456 this returns and empty directory)
> 
> Does /tmp/lost+found/#123456 contain another #123456? And
> why does this cd lead you to your (root's) home directory?

Probably because the # is interpreted as comment. I can reproduce this
in a bourne shell; not in (t)csh.

Ruben
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Re: lost+found

2009-05-02 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 02 May 2009 15:45:13 -0400, PJ  wrote:
> [~]# cd /tmp/lost+found/#123456
> [/tmp/lost+found/#123456]# ls

Okay, it's empty.



> [/tmp/lost+found/#123456]# cd ..

Strange, why does .. lead you from /tmp/lost+found/#123456
to /tmp/lost+found/#123456, just as if cd wasn't executed?



> [/tmp/lost+found/#123456]# cd #123456 this returns and empty directory)

Does /tmp/lost+found/#123456 contain another #123456? And
why does this cd lead you to your (root's) home directory?

> [~]# ls (this returns the listing of the contents of /root

Of course, because CWD is ~ now.



> Whoops! What is going on? I'd like to delete this /tmp/lost+found/
> directory but, being very wary, I don't want to take the risk (probably
> none) to delete it since there is no indication that this is a symbolic
> link and might delte the actual /root/ directory withoug getting some
> information about this occurrence.

The best idea would be to copy the content of /root into
another directory first, then performing the rm operation,
and afterwards, if something went wrong, restore /root from
this backup copy.




Very strange... Just to be sure, are you SURE you reported
the paths (in the prompt) and the commands correctly?



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lost+found

2009-05-02 Thread PJ
A couple of days ago I had minor glitch as my FreeBSD box on my local
intranet had an unexpected shutdown.
When I fsck'd on reboot I was left with a few lost+found directories
with #99 files. Most appeared inconsequential and could be deleted.
But there is one /tmp/lost+found that puzzles me. There are 3
subdirectories that act a little strangely.
[~]# cd /tmp/lost+found/#123456
[/tmp/lost+found/#123456]# ls
[/tmp/lost+found/#123456]# cd ..
[/tmp/lost+found/#123456]# cd #123456 this returns and empty directory)
[~]# ls (this returns the listing of the contents of /root

Whoops! What is going on? I'd like to delete this /tmp/lost+found/
directory but, being very wary, I don't want to take the risk (probably
none) to delete it since there is no indication that this is a symbolic
link and might delte the actual /root/ directory withoug getting some
information about this occurrence.
TIA.


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Re: No space in lost+found directory (formerly: SORRY. NO SPACE IN lost+found DIRECTORY)

2009-04-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 08:30:40PM +0200, Polytropon wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:21:28 +0100, Chris Rees  wrote:
> > 2009/4/16 Bruce Cran :
> > > Maybe we should tell FreeBSD to stop shouting too? :)
> > 
> > Actually, we really should! Come on, we're not on teletypes any more.
> 
> Did UPPERCASE LETTERS make the teletype print louder?
> I always assumed they would just consume more disk space...
> RYRYRYRYRYRYRY!!! :-)

Nah, the earliest ones only had upper case.  When they made
upper/lower models, for some reason people just left on shift-lock - 
maybe to make it look the same.

jerry


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Re: No space in lost+found directory (formerly: SORRY. NO SPACE IN lost+found DIRECTORY)

2009-04-16 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:21:28 +0100, Chris Rees  wrote:
> 2009/4/16 Bruce Cran :
> > Maybe we should tell FreeBSD to stop shouting too? :)
> 
> Actually, we really should! Come on, we're not on teletypes any more.

Did UPPERCASE LETTERS make the teletype print louder?
I always assumed they would just consume more disk space...
RYRYRYRYRYRYRY!!! :-)


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Re: No space in lost+found directory (formerly: SORRY. NO SPACE IN lost+found DIRECTORY)

2009-04-16 Thread Chris Rees
2009/4/16 Bruce Cran :
> On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:03:58 +0100
> Chris Rees  wrote:
>
> 2009/4/16 vijay kumar :
>>>
>>> SORRY. NO SPACE IN lost+found DIRECTORY
>
>> Please don't shout.
>
> fsfsck_ffs/dir.c:467:           pfatal("SORRY. NO SPACE IN
> lost+found DIRECTORY"
>
> Maybe we should tell FreeBSD to stop shouting too? :)
>
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>

Actually, we really should! Come on, we're not on teletypes any more.

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Re: No space in lost+found directory (formerly: SORRY. NO SPACE IN lost+found DIRECTORY)

2009-04-16 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:03:58 +0100
Chris Rees  wrote:

2009/4/16 vijay kumar :
>>
>> SORRY. NO SPACE IN lost+found DIRECTORY  

> Please don't shout.

fsfsck_ffs/dir.c:467:   pfatal("SORRY. NO SPACE IN
lost+found DIRECTORY"

Maybe we should tell FreeBSD to stop shouting too? :)

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No space in lost+found directory (formerly: SORRY. NO SPACE IN lost+found DIRECTORY)

2009-04-16 Thread Chris Rees
Pasted from subject:

2009/4/16 vijay kumar :
>
> SORRY. NO SPACE IN lost+found DIRECTORY

Please don't shout.

Have you checked that / has sufficient space?

Try

root # fsck /
---

root # df -h


and post the result.

Regards,

Chris

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Re: SORRY. NO SPACE IN lost+found DIRECTORY

2009-04-16 Thread Mehul Ved
Sorry, no contents in email.
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SORRY. NO SPACE IN lost+found DIRECTORY

2009-04-16 Thread vijay kumar
 

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Ran fsck, now all files are in lost+found

2008-09-10 Thread Bryant Eadon
So, I moved a RAID5 device between a FreeBSD 6.0 machine to fresh FreeBSD 7.0 
machine.  When I attempted to mount the device the OS complained that the disk 
had not bee unmounted properly -- figuring it was probably correct, I diligently 
dropped to single user mode and ran fsck on the disk.


I ran 'fsck -t ufs -y'.  all seemed fine and dandy until I tried to remount the 
volume after bringing it back to multi-user mode.  The disk space was occupied, 
but it all resided in lost+found with names like :  #001   ,  #002 
etc... !!  Each file was multiple gigabytes worth of data without file 
structures (as far as I could tell)


Is there an way to recover from this problem ?   I would be losing quite a lot 
of data, any help you could give would be appreciated.


Help,
B
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lost+found help please

2007-06-22 Thread Troy Kocher
Yesterday my server rebooted for some unknown reason and after fsck-  
ing 4 times I had ALOT of stuff in lost+found.  I really need to try  
and review/recover these files.   Only docs I've found were linux  
centric, and focused on directories and dates.  I can't make out  
either here.


Please take a look at this "http://www.mtadistributors.com/listing.txt";

I'd appreciate any advise you may have to offer.

Thanks
Troy Kocher



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Re: lost+found

2007-04-25 Thread Robert Huff
Bill Moran writes:

>  > What is lost+found? I've got one on all my filesystems and
>  > over the past few days i've had things being deleted from
>  > there. Do i have a problem? 
>  
>  When fsck finds problems with the filesystem, it saves any data
>  that otherwise may have been lost to this directory.

To elaborate a little:
When fsck finds a file that no directory thinks belongs to
it. it stores that file in the "lost+found" directory of that
partition as "#".



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Re: lost+found

2007-04-25 Thread Bill Moran
In response to "Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Hello,
> What is lost+found? I've got one on all my filesystems and over the past 
> few days i've had things being deleted from there. Do i have a problem?

When fsck finds problems with the filesystem, it saves any data that otherwise
may have been lost to this directory.

This is likely to happen if your system is powered off without a proper
shutdown.  If you use softupdates on your filesystems, this is not done
because softupdates has other ways to deal with the problem.

Don't shut off your system without properly unmounting the filesystems and
you won't have this problem.  If you aren't missing any data, you can
delete the files in there.

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lost+found

2007-04-25 Thread Dave

Hello,
   What is lost+found? I've got one on all my filesystems and over the past 
few days i've had things being deleted from there. Do i have a problem?

Thanks.
Dave.

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Re: removing large files (lost+found)

2006-08-02 Thread Scott Oertel

Dan Nelson wrote:

In the last episode (Aug 02), Scott Oertel said:
  

Dan Nelson wrote:


In the last episode (Aug 02), Scott Oertel said:
  

Yesterday after an fsck a file was placed in the lost+found folder
which size was exactly the size of the drive (450gb). What is the
safest way to remove this file?


If its timestamp updates when you touch a file on the main
filesystem, it's most likely a snapshot file, either leftover from a
failed background fsck, or manually created by you with mksnap_ffs. 
You can just delete it.
  

The time stamp doesn't update, it gives an error: touch: #0005:
Operation not permitted



I mean touch some other file :)

But I just remembered the correct way to determine if a file is a
snapshot: "ls -lo".  If the flags field contains the word "snapshot"
for that file, it's a snapshot.

  
Good call, yeah.. it is a snap shot file, I suppose I'll try and remove 
it, hopefully removing a 450GB file doesn't lock up the system..

# ls -lo
-r  1 root   operator  snapshot 482801995408 Jul 31 
05:52 #0005


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Re: removing large files (lost+found)

2006-08-02 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 02), Scott Oertel said:
> Dan Nelson wrote:
> >In the last episode (Aug 02), Scott Oertel said:
> >>Yesterday after an fsck a file was placed in the lost+found folder
> >>which size was exactly the size of the drive (450gb). What is the
> >>safest way to remove this file?
> >
> >If its timestamp updates when you touch a file on the main
> >filesystem, it's most likely a snapshot file, either leftover from a
> >failed background fsck, or manually created by you with mksnap_ffs. 
> >You can just delete it.
>
> The time stamp doesn't update, it gives an error: touch: #0005:
> Operation not permitted

I mean touch some other file :)

But I just remembered the correct way to determine if a file is a
snapshot: "ls -lo".  If the flags field contains the word "snapshot"
for that file, it's a snapshot.

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Re: removing large files (lost+found)

2006-08-02 Thread Scott Oertel

Dan Nelson wrote:

In the last episode (Aug 02), Scott Oertel said:
  
Yesterday after an fsck a file was placed in the lost+found folder which 
size was exactly the size of the drive (450gb). What is the safest way 
to remove this file?



If its timestamp updates when you touch a file on the main filesystem,
it's most likely a snapshot file, either leftover from a failed
background fsck, or manually created by you with mksnap_ffs.  You can
just delete it.

  
The time stamp doesn't update, it gives an error: touch: #0005: 
Operation not permitted



-Scott Oertel
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Re: removing large files (lost+found)

2006-08-02 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 02), Scott Oertel said:
> Yesterday after an fsck a file was placed in the lost+found folder which 
> size was exactly the size of the drive (450gb). What is the safest way 
> to remove this file?

If its timestamp updates when you touch a file on the main filesystem,
it's most likely a snapshot file, either leftover from a failed
background fsck, or manually created by you with mksnap_ffs.  You can
just delete it.

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removing large files (lost+found)

2006-08-02 Thread Scott Oertel
Yesterday after an fsck a file was placed in the lost+found folder which 
size was exactly the size of the drive (450gb). What is the safest way 
to remove this file?




Thanks,
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RE: lost+found

2006-07-10 Thread Jerlique Bahn
Hello Chuck,

> Jerlique Bahn wrote:
> > If I pull the power on my server whilst its doing heavy IO, should I get
> > files in lost+found if my raid card has battery backed cache?
> 
> Yes, it's still possible.
>
> The cache on the RAID card will be flushed OK, but any in-process
> operations by live processes will be interrupted in the middle if the OS 
> goes away. While some operations are atomic (things like unlink or move),
> simply writing pieces out is not...

Ok, this is contrary to what was my belief, but I guess it really does makes
sense. Eg Suppose we are talking about writing a 1gb file. This obviously
needs to be written to the disk, and not stored in cache. 

So can you explain the process of ufs writing the file, and what ends up in
lost+found if the server is rebooted part way through eg say we are 3/4 of
the way through writing the file before reboot.

Or better still are there any "semi-technical" white papers/web-pages which
could explain this, and under what circumstances lost+found is used.

> > I would like to also know how to turn off (or check) caching on the
> physical
> > disk itself.
>
> smartmontools port?  sysctl hw.ata.wc...?

Sorry I should have mentioned I'm using SCSI disks behind a raid card ;)
 
Thanks for your comments!

JB

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Re: lost+found

2006-07-09 Thread Chuck Swiger

Jerlique Bahn wrote:

If I pull the power on my server whilst its doing heavy IO, should I get
files in lost+found if my raid card has battery backed cache? 


Yes, it's still possible.


I was under the understanding that the file operations were atomic, and
hence freebsd's file system should have no corrupted files on the reboot.
The raid card says that it is flushing the cache of the card, yet freebsd
still experiences the corrupt files.


The cache on the RAID card will be flushed OK, but any in-process operations 
by live processes will be interrupted in the middle if the OS goes away. 
While some operations are atomic (things like unlink or move), simply writing 
pieces out is not...



What should I be looking for?

I would like to also know how to turn off (or check) caching on the physical
disk itself.


smartmontools port?  sysctl hw.ata.wc...?

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lost+found

2006-07-08 Thread Jerlique Bahn
Hello,

If I pull the power on my server whilst its doing heavy IO, should I get
files in lost+found if my raid card has battery backed cache? 

I was under the understanding that the file operations were atomic, and
hence freebsd's file system should have no corrupted files on the reboot.
The raid card says that it is flushing the cache of the card, yet freebsd
still experiences the corrupt files.

What should I be looking for?

I would like to also know how to turn off (or check) caching on the physical
disk itself.

JB

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Re: lost+found

2006-05-13 Thread Daniel Bye
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 11:42:54PM +0200, Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> Why the structure of directories in FreeBSD don't have a lost+found
> directory?. (Talking about 6.x Releases)
> 
> Some Unix manuals tell that this directory is very important for the
> work of the fsck program...

Indeed.  And if ever fsck needs one, it creates it.  I know from bitter
personal experience!

Dan

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lost+found

2006-05-13 Thread Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez
Hi.

Why the structure of directories in FreeBSD don't have a lost+found
directory?. (Talking about 6.x Releases)

Some Unix manuals tell that this directory is very important for the
work of the fsck program...

Thanks very much, in advance.

Regards.

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How do you increase the size of lost+found?

2004-04-13 Thread Brad Waite
While trying to recover from a HD crash, 'fsck -y /dev/rad1s1a' reports 
the following error a number of times at the end of it's run:

UNREF FILE  I=3537799  OWNER=500 MODE=100644
SIZE=6611 MTIME=Oct 25 21:12 2003
RECONNECT? yes
SORRY. NO SPACE IN lost+found DIRECTORY

This tells me that it's not saving some of the files on the drive.  Is 
that correct?

Is there anything I can do to make more space in lost+found, either 
system-wide or while the fsck is running?

Some possibly pertinent info:

# ls -lad lost+found
drwxrwxrwt  1379 root  wheel  182272 Apr 12 16:55 lost+found
# ls lost+found | wc -l
8899
This fs was copied from a drive reporting "hard errors reading fsbn..." 
using dd.

Thanks,

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SORRY. NO SPACE IN lost+found DIRECTORY

2004-04-12 Thread Brad Waite
While trying to recover from a HD crash, 'fsck -y /dev/rad1s1a' reports 
the following error a number of times at the end of it's run.

UNREF FILE  I=3537799  OWNER=500 MODE=100644
SIZE=6611 MTIME=Oct 25 21:12 2003
RECONNECT? yes
SORRY. NO SPACE IN lost+found DIRECTORY

This tells me that it's not saving some of the files on the drive.  Is 
that correct?  Is there anything I can do to make more space in 
lost+found, either system-wide or while the fsck is running?

Some possibly pertinent info:

# ls -lad lost+found
drwxrwxrwt  1379 root  wheel  182272 Apr 12 16:55 lost+found
# ls lost+found | wc -l
8899
This fs was copied from a drive reporting "hard errors reading fsbn..." 
using dd.

Thanks,

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Re: deleting lost+found directory

2004-03-06 Thread Vincent Poy
On Sat, 6 Mar 2004, Vincent Poy wrote:

> On Sat, 6 Mar 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 04:03:35PM -1000, Vincent Poy wrote:
> >
> > > > > > > > They're just directories, remove them in the usual way.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >   Tried that, didn't work...
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [4:00pm][/mnt/usr/lost+found] >> rm -rf *
> > > > > > > rm: #5558272: Directory not empty
> > > > > > > rm: #7018496: Directory not empty
> > > > > > > rm: #7206914: Directory not empty
> > > > > > > rm: #7254025: Directory not empty
> > > > > > > rm: #7254167: Directory not empty
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Unmount the filesystem and run fsck again (e.g. with the -f flag).
> > > > > > You seem to have additional filesystem corruption here.
> > > > >
> > > > >   I did fsck with the -fy flag just now and this is what it says:
> > > > >
> > > > > UNREF DIR  I=471104  OWNER=root MODE=40755
> > > > > SIZE=512 MTIME=Mar  1 04:00 2004
> > > > > RECONNECT? yes
> > > > >
> > > > > SORRY. NO SPACE IN lost+found DIRECTORY
> > > > > UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY
> > > >
> > > > Is the disk full or out of inodes?
> > >
> > >   Not sure about the inodes but the disk is at 0% capacity as ad2s1a
> > > doesn't have any problems.  ad2s1d is the one where I rm -rf . since that
> > > is used to do a dump,restore of /usr.
> >
> > I don't understand which disk is which..can you please describe your
> > configuration in more detail?
>
>   Okay, let's see...
>
> /dev/ad0 and /dev/ad2 are identical drives (Hitachi TravelStar 2.5"
> 7200RPM 60GB)
>
> /dev/ad0s1a is 128MB for /  - 54% capacity
> /dev/ad0s1b is 256MB for swap
> /dev/ad0s1d is 56.3GB for /usr - 11% capacity
>
> /dev/ad2s1a is 128MB for /mnt/root - 54% capacity
> /dev/ad0s1b is 256MB for swap
> /dev/ad0s1d is 56.3GB for /mnt/usr - 11% capacity max
>
>   Basically, /mnt/root is a clone of / and /mnt/usr is a clone of
> /usr which is done as follows:
>
> cd /mnt/root
> /bin/chflags -R noschg .
> /bin/rm -rf .*
> /bin/rm -rf *
> /sbin/dump -L -f- /|restore -rf-
> cd /mnt/usr
> /bin/chflags -R noschg .
> /bin/rm -rf .*
> /bin/rm -rf *
> /sbin/dump -L -f- /usr|restore -rf-
>
>   /mnt/usr is the one with the problem I mentioned which is due to
> an upgrade of -CURRENT to February 28, 2003 and even March 5, 2003 from
> the September 26, 2003 which was working fine but now whenever this script
> executes at 4AM, it causes a kernel panic with the following:
>
> panic: kmem_malloc (4096): kmem_map too small: 377487360 total allocated
>at line 341 in file /usr/src/sys/vm/vm_kern.c
> cpuid=0;
> Debugger("panic")
> Stopped at Debugger+0x46: xchgl %ebx, in_Debugger.0
> db>
>
>   The script runs fine if I do it manually after a few minutes after
> a reboot.
>
> I've tried adding the following to the kernel config, building and
> installing the kernel
>
> options VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX=(768*1048576)
> options VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE=2
>
> as well as adding vm.kmem_size=429391872 to /boot/loader.conf to the
> without the above options and they both panic right after this part:
>
> CPU: Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 2.60GHz (2592.36-MHz 686-class
> CPU)  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0xf29  Stepping = 9
>
> Features=0xbfebf9ff AT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
> real memory  = 2147360768 (2047 MB)
> avail memory = 2095669248 (1998 MB)
>
> with something having to do with vm_kern.c.

Just an update, fixed the problem.  Seems like I had to do
fsck -fyp /dev/ad2s1d followed by fsck -fy /dev/ad2s1d and then repeat the
same process again until neither one of them complains which took 5-6
passes.  Thanks Kris!


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Re: deleting lost+found directory

2004-03-06 Thread Vincent Poy
On Sat, 6 Mar 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 04:03:35PM -1000, Vincent Poy wrote:
>
> > > > > > > They're just directories, remove them in the usual way.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Tried that, didn't work...
> > > > >
> > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [4:00pm][/mnt/usr/lost+found] >> rm -rf *
> > > > > > rm: #5558272: Directory not empty
> > > > > > rm: #7018496: Directory not empty
> > > > > > rm: #7206914: Directory not empty
> > > > > > rm: #7254025: Directory not empty
> > > > > > rm: #7254167: Directory not empty
> > > > >
> > > > > Unmount the filesystem and run fsck again (e.g. with the -f flag).
> > > > > You seem to have additional filesystem corruption here.
> > > >
> > > > I did fsck with the -fy flag just now and this is what it says:
> > > >
> > > > UNREF DIR  I=471104  OWNER=root MODE=40755
> > > > SIZE=512 MTIME=Mar  1 04:00 2004
> > > > RECONNECT? yes
> > > >
> > > > SORRY. NO SPACE IN lost+found DIRECTORY
> > > > UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY
> > >
> > > Is the disk full or out of inodes?
> >
> > Not sure about the inodes but the disk is at 0% capacity as ad2s1a
> > doesn't have any problems.  ad2s1d is the one where I rm -rf . since that
> > is used to do a dump,restore of /usr.
>
> I don't understand which disk is which..can you please describe your
> configuration in more detail?

Okay, let's see...

/dev/ad0 and /dev/ad2 are identical drives (Hitachi TravelStar 2.5"
7200RPM 60GB)

/dev/ad0s1a is 128MB for /  - 54% capacity
/dev/ad0s1b is 256MB for swap
/dev/ad0s1d is 56.3GB for /usr - 11% capacity

/dev/ad2s1a is 128MB for /mnt/root - 54% capacity
/dev/ad0s1b is 256MB for swap
/dev/ad0s1d is 56.3GB for /mnt/usr - 11% capacity max

Basically, /mnt/root is a clone of / and /mnt/usr is a clone of
/usr which is done as follows:

cd /mnt/root
/bin/chflags -R noschg .
/bin/rm -rf .*
/bin/rm -rf *
/sbin/dump -L -f- /|restore -rf-
cd /mnt/usr
/bin/chflags -R noschg .
/bin/rm -rf .*
/bin/rm -rf *
/sbin/dump -L -f- /usr|restore -rf-

/mnt/usr is the one with the problem I mentioned which is due to
an upgrade of -CURRENT to February 28, 2003 and even March 5, 2003 from
the September 26, 2003 which was working fine but now whenever this script
executes at 4AM, it causes a kernel panic with the following:

panic: kmem_malloc (4096): kmem_map too small: 377487360 total allocated
   at line 341 in file /usr/src/sys/vm/vm_kern.c
cpuid=0;
Debugger("panic")
Stopped at Debugger+0x46: xchgl %ebx, in_Debugger.0
db>

The script runs fine if I do it manually after a few minutes after
a reboot.

I've tried adding the following to the kernel config, building and
installing the kernel

options VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX=(768*1048576)
options VM_KMEM_SIZE_SCALE=2

as well as adding vm.kmem_size=429391872 to /boot/loader.conf to the
without the above options and they both panic right after this part:

CPU: Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 2.60GHz (2592.36-MHz 686-class
CPU)  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0xf29  Stepping = 9

Features=0xbfebf9ff
real memory  = 2147360768 (2047 MB)
avail memory = 2095669248 (1998 MB)

with something having to do with vm_kern.c.


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Re: deleting lost+found directory

2004-03-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 04:03:35PM -1000, Vincent Poy wrote:

> > > > > > They're just directories, remove them in the usual way.
> > > > >
> > > > >   Tried that, didn't work...
> > > >
> > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [4:00pm][/mnt/usr/lost+found] >> rm -rf *
> > > > > rm: #5558272: Directory not empty
> > > > > rm: #7018496: Directory not empty
> > > > > rm: #7206914: Directory not empty
> > > > > rm: #7254025: Directory not empty
> > > > > rm: #7254167: Directory not empty
> > > >
> > > > Unmount the filesystem and run fsck again (e.g. with the -f flag).
> > > > You seem to have additional filesystem corruption here.
> > >
> > >   I did fsck with the -fy flag just now and this is what it says:
> > >
> > > UNREF DIR  I=471104  OWNER=root MODE=40755
> > > SIZE=512 MTIME=Mar  1 04:00 2004
> > > RECONNECT? yes
> > >
> > > SORRY. NO SPACE IN lost+found DIRECTORY
> > > UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY
> >
> > Is the disk full or out of inodes?
> 
>   Not sure about the inodes but the disk is at 0% capacity as ad2s1a
> doesn't have any problems.  ad2s1d is the one where I rm -rf . since that
> is used to do a dump,restore of /usr.

I don't understand which disk is which..can you please describe your
configuration in more detail?

Kris


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Re: deleting lost+found directory

2004-03-06 Thread Vincent Poy
On Sat, 6 Mar 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 03:53:13PM -1000, Vincent Poy wrote:
> > On Sat, 6 Mar 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >
> > > On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 02:00:12PM -1000, Vincent Poy wrote:
> > >
> > > > > They're just directories, remove them in the usual way.
> > > >
> > > > Tried that, didn't work...
> > >
> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [4:00pm][/mnt/usr/lost+found] >> rm -rf *
> > > > rm: #5558272: Directory not empty
> > > > rm: #7018496: Directory not empty
> > > > rm: #7206914: Directory not empty
> > > > rm: #7254025: Directory not empty
> > > > rm: #7254167: Directory not empty
> > >
> > > Unmount the filesystem and run fsck again (e.g. with the -f flag).
> > > You seem to have additional filesystem corruption here.
> >
> > I did fsck with the -fy flag just now and this is what it says:
> >
> > UNREF DIR  I=471104  OWNER=root MODE=40755
> > SIZE=512 MTIME=Mar  1 04:00 2004
> > RECONNECT? yes
> >
> > SORRY. NO SPACE IN lost+found DIRECTORY
> > UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY
>
> Is the disk full or out of inodes?

Not sure about the inodes but the disk is at 0% capacity as ad2s1a
doesn't have any problems.  ad2s1d is the one where I rm -rf . since that
is used to do a dump,restore of /usr.


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Re: deleting lost+found directory

2004-03-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 03:53:13PM -1000, Vincent Poy wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Mar 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 02:00:12PM -1000, Vincent Poy wrote:
> >
> > > > They're just directories, remove them in the usual way.
> > >
> > >   Tried that, didn't work...
> >
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [4:00pm][/mnt/usr/lost+found] >> rm -rf *
> > > rm: #5558272: Directory not empty
> > > rm: #7018496: Directory not empty
> > > rm: #7206914: Directory not empty
> > > rm: #7254025: Directory not empty
> > > rm: #7254167: Directory not empty
> >
> > Unmount the filesystem and run fsck again (e.g. with the -f flag).
> > You seem to have additional filesystem corruption here.
> 
>   I did fsck with the -fy flag just now and this is what it says:
> 
> UNREF DIR  I=471104  OWNER=root MODE=40755
> SIZE=512 MTIME=Mar  1 04:00 2004
> RECONNECT? yes
> 
> SORRY. NO SPACE IN lost+found DIRECTORY
> UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY

Is the disk full or out of inodes?

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Re: deleting lost+found directory

2004-03-06 Thread Vincent Poy
On Sat, 6 Mar 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 02:00:12PM -1000, Vincent Poy wrote:
>
> > > They're just directories, remove them in the usual way.
> >
> > Tried that, didn't work...
>
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [4:00pm][/mnt/usr/lost+found] >> rm -rf *
> > rm: #5558272: Directory not empty
> > rm: #7018496: Directory not empty
> > rm: #7206914: Directory not empty
> > rm: #7254025: Directory not empty
> > rm: #7254167: Directory not empty
>
> Unmount the filesystem and run fsck again (e.g. with the -f flag).
> You seem to have additional filesystem corruption here.

I did fsck with the -fy flag just now and this is what it says:

UNREF DIR  I=471104  OWNER=root MODE=40755
SIZE=512 MTIME=Mar  1 04:00 2004
RECONNECT? yes

SORRY. NO SPACE IN lost+found DIRECTORY
UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY


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Re: deleting lost+found directory

2004-03-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 02:00:12PM -1000, Vincent Poy wrote:

> > They're just directories, remove them in the usual way.
> 
>   Tried that, didn't work...

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] [4:00pm][/mnt/usr/lost+found] >> rm -rf *
> rm: #5558272: Directory not empty
> rm: #7018496: Directory not empty
> rm: #7206914: Directory not empty
> rm: #7254025: Directory not empty
> rm: #7254167: Directory not empty

Unmount the filesystem and run fsck again (e.g. with the -f flag).
You seem to have additional filesystem corruption here.

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Re: deleting lost+found directory

2004-03-06 Thread Vincent Poy
On Sat, 6 Mar 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 08:27:11AM -1000, Vincent Poy wrote:
> > Hi everyone:
> >
> > On one of my disks that has no files in it mounted as /mnt/usr,
> > fsck is creating the lost+found directory and underneath each one are
> > directories named starting with # that is empty, is there anyway to remove
> > these?  Thanks.
>
> They're just directories, remove them in the usual way.

Tried that, didn't work...

[EMAIL PROTECTED] [4:00pm][/mnt/usr] >> cd lost+found
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [4:00pm][/mnt/usr/lost+found] >> dir
total 56
drwxr-xr-x   20 root  wheel  -   512 Mar  6 10:16 #5558272
drwxr-xr-x5 root  wheel  -   512 Mar  4 04:00 #7018496
drwxr-xr-x  108 root  wheel  -  8704 Mar  1 04:00 #7206914
drwxr-xr-x   43 root  wheel  -  1024 Mar  4 04:00 #7254025
drwxr-xr-x  118 root  wheel  -  2048 Mar  4 04:00 #7254167
drwx--7 root  wheel  - 35840 Mar  6 10:33 .
drwxr-xr-x   49 root  wheel  -   512 Mar  5 20:43 ..
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [4:00pm][/mnt/usr/lost+found] >> dir *
#5558272:
total 38
drwxr-xr-x  20 root  wheel  -   512 Mar  6 10:16 .
drwx--   7 root  wheel  - 35840 Mar  6 10:33 ..

#7018496:
total 38
drwxr-xr-x  5 root  wheel  -   512 Mar  4 04:00 .
drwx--  7 root  wheel  - 35840 Mar  6 10:33 ..

#7206914:
total 46
drwxr-xr-x  108 root  wheel  -  8704 Mar  1 04:00 .
drwx--7 root  wheel  - 35840 Mar  6 10:33 ..

#7254025:
total 38
drwxr-xr-x  43 root  wheel  -  1024 Mar  4 04:00 .
drwx--   7 root  wheel  - 35840 Mar  6 10:33 ..

#7254167:
total 38
drwxr-xr-x  118 root  wheel  -  2048 Mar  4 04:00 .
drwx--7 root  wheel  - 35840 Mar  6 10:33 ..
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [4:00pm][/mnt/usr/lost+found] >> rm -rf *
rm: #5558272: Directory not empty
rm: #7018496: Directory not empty
rm: #7206914: Directory not empty
rm: #7254025: Directory not empty
rm: #7254167: Directory not empty


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Re: deleting lost+found directory

2004-03-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 08:27:11AM -1000, Vincent Poy wrote:
> Hi everyone:
> 
>   On one of my disks that has no files in it mounted as /mnt/usr,
> fsck is creating the lost+found directory and underneath each one are
> directories named starting with # that is empty, is there anyway to remove
> these?  Thanks.

They're just directories, remove them in the usual way.

Kris


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deleting lost+found directory

2004-03-06 Thread Vincent Poy
Hi everyone:

On one of my disks that has no files in it mounted as /mnt/usr,
fsck is creating the lost+found directory and underneath each one are
directories named starting with # that is empty, is there anyway to remove
these?  Thanks.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] [10:26am][/mnt/usr/lost+found] >> dir
total 56
drw-rw-rw-   20 root  wheel  -   512 Mar  6 10:16 #5558272
drwxr-xr-x5 root  wheel  -   512 Mar  4 04:00 #7018496
drwxrwxrwx  108 root  wheel  -  8704 Mar  1 04:00 #7206914
drwxr-xr-x   43 root  wheel  -  1024 Mar  4 04:00 #7254025
drwxr-xr-x  118 root  wheel  -  2048 Mar  4 04:00 #7254167
drwx--7 root  wheel  - 35840 Mar  6 10:16 .
drwxr-xr-x   23 root  wheel  -   512 Mar  6 10:16 ..
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [10:26am][/mnt/usr/lost+found] >> dir *
#5558272:
total 38
drw-rw-rw-  20 root  wheel  -   512 Mar  6 10:16 .
drwx--   7 root  wheel  - 35840 Mar  6 10:16 ..

#7018496:
total 38
drwxr-xr-x  5 root  wheel  -   512 Mar  4 04:00 .
drwx--  7 root  wheel  - 35840 Mar  6 10:16 ..

#7206914:
total 46
drwxrwxrwx  108 root  wheel  -  8704 Mar  1 04:00 .
drwx--7 root  wheel  - 35840 Mar  6 10:16 ..

#7254025:
total 38
drwxr-xr-x  43 root  wheel  -  1024 Mar  4 04:00 .
drwx--   7 root  wheel  - 35840 Mar  6 10:16 ..

#7254167:
total 38
drwxr-xr-x  118 root  wheel  -  2048 Mar  4 04:00 .
drwx--7 root  wheel  - 35840 Mar  6 10:16 ..


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Re: Lost + Found

2002-11-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 12:10:33PM +0200, Doron Shmaryahu wrote:

> I had a server which due to power problems rebooted a couple of times. I did
> a fsck, because it kept complaining about inconsistencies.

> Now some directories seem to have moved. I located them in lost + found. Is
> there any way to recover these files from there ??

lost+found is where fsck(8) puts files or directories it finds on the
disk but that it can't place correctly into the filesystem because of
damage to directories further up the tree.

Just mv(1) the data back to where it came from.  Unfortunately,
there's no record kept on the system of where that was, so you'll just
have to remember for yourself as well as you can.  Note that if you're
seeing stuff in lost and found, then it's quite possible that there
were other files that have disappeared completely.  You may have to
recover the partition from backup to ensure that everything is
consistent.

Cheers,

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Lost + Found

2002-11-19 Thread Doron Shmaryahu
Hi,

I had a server which due to power problems rebooted a couple of times. I did
a fsck, because it kept complaining about inconsistencies.

Now some directories seem to have moved. I located them in lost + found. Is
there any way to recover these files from there ??

thanks

Doron



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