On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 01:07:56PM -0500, Jack O'Quin wrote: > Eric Dantan Rzewnicki <rzewnickie@xxxxxxx> writes: > > > 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! > > I really hope this isn't a hardware problem ... > I agree with Paul, it sure sounds like either bad RAM or a bad disk > (or disk controller). Try running memtest86 (it's a boot option). > -- > joq :( ok ... I'll try that. thanks. -edrz