On 07/06/2012 01:41 PM, Steven Stern wrote:
Did anything show up in the /lost+found directory?
Good advice.
I had a box boot for the specified number of times to require an fsck.
I ended up with a box that wouldn't boot.
After moving the drive to another machine I tried a little forensics:
the entire contents of the /boot partition had disappeared.
On a hunch I "tree"ed lost+found and found many leafless branches but
one that had the entire contents of /boot. Copied everything back to
/boot and did another fsck. Clean!
Returned the drive to its original box and booted. Came up without a hitch.
To this day I haven't the slightest idea what happened to corrupt the
drive and can say that its the first time I've ever found anything in a
lost+found directory. Very glad it was there.
First time in 15 years I've seen anything like that.
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