On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 01:13:30PM -0400, Paul Winkler wrote: > On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 12:42:43PM -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: > > I managed to get my system back (though I'm pretty sure it's not in good > > order). My file system was a total mess. There were around 2000 items in > > /lost+found. sed, tar, and vi (at least) were completely missing. man > > was rsync. My dpkg/apt database was totally hosed. Much of what should > > have been symlinks under /etc/alternatives/ was some sort of data file. > > And so on, and so on ... > Eeeyuck. That sounds like what happened to me when a hardware > failure (bad RAM) totally hosed my ext2 filesystem a few years back. > The inodes were basically randomized. > Glad you got the important stuff back! yuck is right. :-} I wasn't too worried, my audio is all on a separate drive, that fortunately didn't get scrambled at all as far as I can see. I still need to make sure some of my ecasound eci python scripts I've been working on are still ok. I think they are. I really hope this isn't a hardware problem ... -Eric Rz.
