Ahhh! Help! Just had half a directory corrupt itself. Well actually sometime between yesterday eve around 6pm and this morning around 8am this particular directory (called General) got corrupted. By corrupted I mean some of the subdirectories of General have been renamed to some sort of hexadecimal gibberish. It would also appear that there are more directories than existed before. Here's an excerpt of the ls -l command on the directory:
drwxrwx--- 2 root teachers 4096 Jan 16 18:53 1 drwxrwx--- 2 root teachers 4096 Jan 16 21:10 101 drwxrwx--- 2 root teachers 4096 Jan 16 21:12 101551142cebf85dda56f2a6f6c42c83 drwxrwx--- 2 root teachers 4096 Jan 16 19:29 101db9f552b98af228c0971de6359aa2 drwxrwx--- 2 root teachers 4096 Jan 16 19:53 101ef26cce93d790861aa8e2995 drwxrwx--- 2 root teachers 4096 Jan 16 19:14 102 drwxrwx--- 2 root teachers 4096 Jan 16 19:46 102c287a5bba6b5415704d2845194d5b drwxrwx--- 2 root teachers 4096 Jan 16 20:25 103 drwxrwx--- 2 root teachers 4096 Jan 16 21:13 1030b9ddefa drwxrwx--- 2 root teachers 4096 Jan 16 20:00 103ebbeda0d2e814bf5938d8fd30c935 drwxrwx--- 2 root teachers 4096 Jan 16 19:02 1042981eee9e5298d8dd25eb6ab81f7 drwxrwx--- 2 root teachers 4096 Jan 16 20:50 10447dc9fa71ebbb50fcd9f840c36987 drwxrwx--- 2 root teachers 4096 Jan 16 19:13 104d194577ebd drwxrwx--- 2 root teachers 4096 Jan 16 19:19 104d90f1284d462f98fcef7320b53382 drwxrwx--- 2 root teachers 4096 Jan 16 20:18 104f3b6d5d1dd5c9b122841dca2b3153 drwxrwx--- 2 root teachers 4096 Jan 16 20:32 1053a54018433a3eecfefa379c395e12 drwxrwx--- 2 root teachers 4096 Jan 16 21:09 1054635f9c15869d4a21a3d554ac2bb5 . . . . drwxrwx--- 2 root teachers 4096 Jan 16 18:54 ffe335161040739a339e8780131f7b66 drwxrwx--- 2 root teachers 4096 Jan 16 19:26 ffe58388a16119354aded46d76b08 drwxrwx--- 2 root teachers 4096 Jan 16 18:59 ffe989f drwxrwx--- 2 root teachers 4096 Jan 16 19:23 ffefe3c1d0d6d899dbac1e739b791d99 drwxrwx--- 2 root teachers 4096 Jan 16 19:43 fff2ddcd7 drwxrwx--- 2 root teachers 4096 Jan 16 20:30 fff53358f7db8cfc16bc90c9bee24ef1 drwxrwx--- 2 root teachers 4096 Jan 16 21:01 fff584d1427167508f96c271b0e49632 drwxrwx--- 2 root teachers 4096 Jan 16 19:00 fffd2a2b7020c73 From this point on, the directory goes back to normal, and all subdirectories actually have their appropriate contents. The above directories do not have anything in them - or so ls says. And here's an excerpt of the directory containing general: total 580 drwxrwx--- 3 root teachers 4096 Jul 5 2002 something drwxrwx--- 18665 root teachers 573440 Jan 16 21:17 general drwxrwx--- 7 root teachers 4096 Jul 5 2002 something_else Also, General happens ot be a Samba share. Any pointers on where to start looking or anything at all would be greatly appreciated. Fil -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
