On Monday 30 October 2006 21:11, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
Just be thankful you did recover everything (as indicated by the lack of anything in lost+found), and hope it never happens again. Out of curiosity, though, do you recall the circumstances of the last shutdown prior to that reboot? I have the same question... about the prior reboot condition...
Also, just a point, be sure to look in the lost+found for *each* partition on your system... it seems like you are aware of multiple lost+found directories... but just to be complete. It seems unlikely that you would experience such corruption with Ext3 and not suffer data loss. On the other hand, supposedly, Ext3 journals *both* the meta data plus the actual data... so, maybe you're a very lucky guy. I would be trying to figure out what caused the glitch in the first place... and not be too trusting of that system until its found... also, this might be a good time to backup what data you need before that HD actually goes bad for good--- ;-) -- Kind regards, M Harris <><