Hi Tom, Thanks for the very thourough answer. I did not have a power failure and my hardware is an old laptop. Next time I will choose ReiserFS.
Thanks a lot! Andrei > On Sunday June 29 2003 05:29 pm, Andrei Raevsky wrote: >> I am running ext3 journalling filesystem which I thought would >> record the location of all my files every 5 sec. However, data >> was lost. Why?! >> >> Can you explain what happened? And should I take any special >> action? > > ext3 is really just ext2 with a not so good journal tacked on. As > such it doesn't recover very much better than ext2 does. Better to use > ReiserFS or XFS true journaling FS's. I'd suggest ReiserFS. > Doesn't help much with your problems now, but next time you > install, I'd advise you to avoid ext3. As to lost or corrupted > files, unless you have backups for 'em, I'm afraid you're SOL. You > might try lookin in the various 'lost&found' directories ext3 > spread all over your system when it tried to recover. > > OTOH, your corruption shouldn't have happened other than due to a > hard shutdown. If that was due to power failure, you need to invest in > an UPS. If you didn't have a hard re-set, your hard drive(s), > might be goin bad. The drive(s) probly came with a bootable floppy and > suitable diagnostics on it for that drive. If not, you can get the > floppy image from your drive's website. Otherwise see 'man > badblocks'. > > You might also have a deficient HDD controller, specially if > you've got a win-raid motherboard, with the fake raid disabled in bios, > but are usin the extra ide ports. Other possible causes are faulty ram, > or PSU. There's other more remote causes like bad caps on the > motherboard, to somethin simple like ide cable(s) that need re-seating > or replacing. IOW's the reason can be many and/or > varied, but boil down to user (including choices), or hardware. > -- > Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas -- Linux-Mandrake 9 (Dolphin) Mandrake Club Silver Member Registered GNU/Linux user: 226850 Registered GNU/Linux computer: 183163 URL: http://laptops.portalinux.org
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