On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Whyzzi wrote:
> On 07/04/06, Otto Moerbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, Whyzzi wrote:
> >
> > > Yeah! that is the thing I didn't do! Run fsck against the affected
> > > partition! Anyways, as per your questions:
> > >
> > > I copied the with cp, eg:
> > > # cd /mnt/wd1a
> > > # cp -R Anime /mnt/wd2d
> > >
> > > Here are the raw df output from the current snapshot kernel [brought
> > > to you by the wonders of OpenSSH]:
> > > # df
> > > Filesystem 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> > > /dev/wd0a 18572172 1062820 16580744 6% /
> > > /dev/wd0d 123841300 4215514788 197101744 14535% /mnt/wd0d
> > > /dev/wd0e 123841300 13434788 104214448 11% /mnt/wd0e
> > > /dev/wd0f 212356232 66929816 134808608 33% /mnt/wd0f
> > > #
> > >
> > > I had torrent'd the Olive OpenBSD live cd awhile back that was a
> > > December? -stable 3.8 (I think), could I use that to run fsck against
> > > the affected partition? That would be easier to do than to hookup the
> > > 40gig that contained the Dec snapshot (I don't have a copy of either
> > > 3.8/3.9 -release available, but I will make one and install it if you
> > > want me to).
> >
> > The Olive CD will probably do, although booting a 3.8 kernel from the
> > boot prompt should work as well; just copy the 3.8 kernel to your root
> > as bsd38 and type "boot bsd38" at the boot prompt.
>
> Cool. Done. I used ftp to grab the 3.8 release kernel from a local
> mirror. I booted single user mode cause I didn't want my services
> spewing at me due to kernel differences. Below are the results:
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> boot> boot /bsd.38 -s
>
> /** SNIP -- cause I copied everything by hand **/
>
> Enter pathname or RETURN for shell:
> Terminal type? vt220
> # dh -h
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> root_device 8.9G 524M 7.9G 6% /
> # mount /dev/wd0d /mnt/wd0d
> # df
> Filesystem 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> root_device 18572127 1073632 16569932 6% /
> /dev/wd0d 123841300 4215514788 197101744 14535% /dev/wd0d
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> Interesting. No difference whatsoever. And because I am a (l)user, I
> am not going to even try to theorize what happened and why. The only
> thing I will say is that each directory I copied - there were five,
> all contained literally more than 10Gigabytes (usually more) of
> useless data each (ok the mp3 collection isn't so useless).
>
> This might be reproduce-able by creating 20 or so 500MB files and
> stuffing them into various subdirectories, totalling 10Gb in one
> directory. copy that 5 times by giving the same directory a different
> name. Then take a look at the drive stats via df. Just remember that
> in my case the destination partition was mounted sync.
>
> Is there anything you would like to have done - or can I use the 3.9
> snapshot and run the fsck?
>
> Cheers, & thanks!
To be on the safe side, run a 3.8 fsck. Easiest way to do that is copy
a 3.8 bsd.rd and boot that. Go to the shell and run fsck -f.
-Otto
