Hi,
I'm using CentOS 5 on all my computers here (work + home) and I'm very
satisfied with it.
Some time ago I purchased a 300 GB external hard drive to store films,
music, pictures and documents. Since there's no Windows machine around
here (small South French village, town hall and public library use Linux
:o)), I replaced the FAT filesystem on the disk by an ext2 filesystem.
Now it's already almost full with data.
A few days ago I had a problem with the subdirectory Cinema/ containing
a collection of my favourite movies. I wanted to copy them from the disk
to my newly purchased laptop (ASUS W6F, already running CentOS 5), when
suddenly I got a read error on data. I checked in a Terminal what was
going on, and the file ownerships were all curiously set, like missing
read flags, no more --x rights on directories, whereas I remember I had
set them right in the first place. So I started a series of recursive
chmod's on the directory Cinema/... but I got nothing: the command
prompt never went back. Unmounting the disk was not responsive neither,
so I just shut it off.
When I was performing this, it was a very hot day, almost 40°C. The disk
was really very hot, so I wonder if this might have damaged it.
I could retrieve some of the data on the disk (music, pictures,
documents), but now, instead of the Cinema/ directory, I have one big
file that looks like this:
[kikinovak@buzz:/media/disk/Films] $ ls -l
total 692996
-rw-r----- 1 678756852 34537972 148381783526817280 avr 28 01:01 Cinema
drwxr-xr-x 3 kikinovak kikinovak 4096 mai 9 10:07 Anime
drwxrwxrwx 4 kikinovak kikinovak 4096 mai 10 12:25 Series
Notice that the file size is something like petabytes :oD
Is there any way to repair this obviously corrupt data?
Cheers,
Niki Kovacs
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