Hi all, My /home partition is having a hard time at the moment. Whilst untarring some files (logged in remotely), the system froze, and by the time I got to the machine physically, the aforementioned partition was in a bad way, needing several fsck passes to fix a bunch of problems. The ext3 journal is gone, so it's now an ext2 filesystem. I was able to mount the file system and have recovered the home directories, but there are a lot of empty looking inodes remaining in lost+found, and fsck keeps getting stuck on the following error that won't go away:
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity Unconnected directory inode 3833802 (...) Connect to /lost+found<y>? yes Couldn't fix parent of inode 3833802: Couldn't find parent directory entry This was after another error that prompted me to delete /lost+found/#3833802. So far google has only turned up advice that I'd give (not very useful, that is). Any ideas? What else needs to be done to clean up the partition? It seems that the superblock is still broken and I'm not sure how to fix that (something to do with backup superblocks I expect). I'll probably delete what remains in lost+found as it doesn't appear to have anything recognisable and I think I have fully recovered the home directories. Then I'll rebuild the ext3 journal and think about a) buying a new hdd b) backing up properly ( :p ) c) reviewing my hdparms. The system has been somewhat unstable ever since I set it up, notably when thrashing the hdd (120GB Seagate SATA). Cheers, - Rog -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
