file system crash

[Greg Kedrovsky]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 09:05:34AM -0500, Brian Densmore wrote:
> My first thought was a possible HD going south.

Yep. Me, too. And, so, thank you to everyone who gave me a clue about
smarttools. I'll be checking into that as soon as I post this. 

> Thinking about it more though, I suspect that it mounted 
> the drive in ext2 mode rather than ext3. Without knowing
> what the boot screen showed it is impossible to verify that.

I didn't catch this until after the fact. So, I'm lost on the details,
too. I just remember always using ext3 (for journalling), and never ext2
or reiserfs. When I saw ext2 in my fstab, I thought, "Hm."

> You might consider keeping an eye on your fstab.

Agreed.

> Next choosing the default value in fixing your filesystem is not always a 
> good thing.

Yeah, but for a non-pro-nerd / weekend hacker... I really didn't know
what else to do. And, having had something similar happen before (solved
rapidly and painlessly by choosing defaults), I assumed... (and, yes, I
know, when you assume you make an "ass" out of "u" and "me"; my Dad
never lets me forget that one). 

> Lastly a suggestion, you might consider creating a fileserver to store your
> important stuff on. Maybe a Samba server.

I do have a fileserver, complete with nfs and samba running. I thought I
had a good back-up from a week or two back. But, as it turns out, it was
anything but a complete / good copy. I used the Gentoo file manager to
just make a copy of my data files and configs to my home dir out on the
server. Apparently it had some sort of brainfart (Gentoo) and didn't
copy over 90% of my data. Since I set it to run while I was sleeping, I
guess I just woke up the next day and assumed (?) that the copy worked
fine. I've had that happen a lot with Gentoo. Maybe I should make more
us of copy -R * in the future. ?? Or is there a better file manager out
there? Gentoo is pretty clean and simple, for the most part.

Thanks to all who responded for the help.

-Greg

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