On 2002.10.21 19:27 Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 04:59:57PM +0100, Ian Leonard wrote: > > > We have been using ext3 with numerous machines and they > > take quite a bit of abuse without incident. This morning I > > got a call to say that a power cut had rendered one box unbootable. > > > > Investigations revealed that the /boot partition was in good order. > > An fsck of / also showed things to be well - except that the partition > > was completely empty - except for /lost+found. > > > > It might appear that some one had created a new filesystem on it. > > However no one at that office would know how. Someone commented > > that this had happened before but not reported. > > Sounds like it was done deliberately. Is the box on the net? Could > an intruder have done this to cover their tracks, for example? I am told it wasn't connected to any network. > The other thing to check is to see if there is more than one partition > on the box which has been given the "/" label. To follow up on this one, I have just received the disk. At one time it had a root partition on it. I set the drive up as a slave and tried to mount a partition. The partition table was trashed. I put it back (I knew the numbers) and /boot was as expected. I mounted /. There was one directory - lost+found. A quick look revelaled that the entire contents of the disk were in there with the first element of the path renamed to (I guess) the inode number. I suppose I could recover the disk - but I'm not that keen. I guess we have build/rebuild a hundred systems or so and this has been reported once before. We are at the latter stages of a development project so there is lot of abuse going on. I seem to be the only one knows about the shutdown command. Given that it was a power outage, it is possible that the power failed again at a crucial stage. Also, as far as I know it shouldn't have run fsck at boot time. The distribution is RH 7.3 but with a 2.4.19 kernel. Any comments would be welcome. -- Ian Leonard eMail: ileonard@ntlworld.com Phone: +44 (0)1865 765273 Please ignore spelling and punctuation - I did. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
