Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 14 Aug 2010, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> always on the same: /dev/sdc5. Well, this is where I have all my docs, >> my university stuff, and this is even more annoying. I could do backups, >> > > I sure hope you *DID* extensive backups. Often. And stored some of > them for permanent archival. > :) >> but I can't understand why this filesystem is problematic, because I >> > > The typical answer is: "because it is always getting corrupted again". > But why again? >> always get the same errors. This time, it was mainly *things like error >> filesystem Inode has EXTENTS_FL flag set, but not too many.* >> > > This could mean you've managed to messing with an ext4 filesystem as if > it were ext3. That won't corrupt file data, but can cause lots of other > problems, and could cause data loss if you manage to confuse the kernel > and the fsck tools enough. With some luck, it will end up in lost+found > after the proper fsck. > > I sure hope that's what is happening. > Well, I never modify things like the fs structure type, such as ext3 or ext4. Where could I have modified this? And why does it often happen to the same files? >> *2) Should I think about buying another hdd? I tried with the hdd life >> > > You should do a 24H memtest86 marathon on that box. I did it many months ago for another issue, and it went okay. > And you should make > sure you're *always* using that filesystem as ext4, since you apparently > have a part of it using ext4 features. > > If it is a hardware problem, it is a strange one... it should be messing > with the entire disk, not just a set of files in the same partition. It > can't be bad magnetic media, as that causes sector read errors, not > corruption. > > I hope this answer helps you. I won't be able to help you further on this. > Maybe someone else can (or has a better idea of what the problem could be). > Thanks.
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