Hello Berry, Is the server running on z/VM? If so, couldn't it be that somebody had overlayed the rootdisk with another MDISK and formatted that new one, leaving the old one totally corrupted? Just guessing.
Regards, Florian On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 2:10 PM, van Sleeuwen, Berry < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello list, > > Last night we had to recover the root disk of one of our SLES9 machines. > For some unknown reason part of the root disk has disappeared. In the > end we have restored the disk from our backups but we still have no idea > why this had happend. It looks like someone has removed selected files > or directories. Some directories are stil available, such as /bin or > /boot but other have been partially or entirly removed. /etc contains > some 40 files, var/log is gone, /var/spool still exists. > > Would it be possible to recover the data from the disk? Are there any > tools available that can analyze and/or recover files? For instance the > /var/log has vanished so if we could recover that perhaps it would give > us some clue as to what happend. > > Do you have any thoughts as to why a part of a filesystem can just > disappear? > > With kind regards, > > Berry van Sleeuwen. > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > -- Best regards Florian Bilek ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
