I'm having what seems to be a similar problem. I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 11 and a few days later my ext4 filesystem began misbehaving in a weird way.
In my home directory, many subdirectory names are duplicated verbatim. Here's an ls -F excerpt: ... Desktop/ Desktop/ Documents/ Documents/ Downloads/ Downloads/ ... I can no longer access files in those directories (if I ls the directory, it appears empty; I can cd to it, but there's nothing inside). Not all of the directories are duplicated/damaged like this, but most are. A few non-directory files are also duplicated in this fashion, so for example: -rw-r--r--1 dgross dgross 95 2011-05-08 16:16 .dmrc -rw-r--r--1 dgross dgross 95 2011-05-08 16:16 .dmrc But I can read the contents of those files. Because of the empty/damaged directories I can only start up in crippled recovery mode (too many essential files are impossible to find). Also many important content files are missing and I'd love to be able to recover them. ----- > sudo fsck.ext4 /dev/sda1 -f -v e2fsck 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010) Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Pass 2: Checking directory structure Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity Pass 4: Checking reference counts Pass 5: Checking group summary information 250236 inodes used (0.84%) 5514 non-contiguous files (2.2%) 559 non-contiguous directories (0.2%) # of inodes with ind/dind/tind blocks: 0/0/0 Extent depth histogram: 216180/243 23781951 blocks used (19.98%) 0 bad blocks 1 large file 181532 regular files 26200 directories 59 character device files 26 block device files 0 fifos 423 links 42407 symbolic links (33715 fast symbolic links) 3 sockets -------- 250650 files -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/623708 Title: duplicate files/directories when mounted -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
