im gonna kill myself! :-) the 200gb volume was made of a 160gb and a 40 gb partition. I order for the kernel to see the whole 160gb I had applied the ide patch to the kernel, which I forgot to apply to 2.4.18!! so now Im rebuilding 2.4.18-xfs with new ide driver, pretty sure everything be back after reboot, I alrady had used the xfs patch from below. damn, Im stupid :-) thx for your help anyways, you mentioning the patch made it click :-.) regards, Christophe On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 00:56, Steve Lord wrote: > On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 16:28, Christophe Zwecker wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I use 2.4.18-xfs with lvm-tools-1.0.1rc4_iop10-fr2 > > lvm-base-1.2-fr1 > > > > I havw a 200GB lv. I had 2.4.16 running after fiddling with usb the > > whole machine crashed, reboot, the fs was corrupt. I had to zerosize the > > journal log, xfs_repair, everything in lost+found. > > Are you running on ide with write caching enabled? corruption after a > crash is possible in that configuration. Also the forced shutdown path > did used to corrupt the filesystem, so once you hit a forced shutdown > it is possible to end up with a zeroed superblock and lose your root > directory too. That is fixed in current code - which is difficult to get > right now. There are ftp mirrors, here is one: > > ftp://ftp.thebarn.com/mirror/SGI Christophe Zwecker mail: doc@zwecker.de Hamburg, Germany fon: +49 179 3994867 http://www.zwecker.de "Who is General Failure ? And why is he reading my disk ??" _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html
