Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] System freeze (was Re: [ecasound] ecasound 2.3.3 released)
From: Paul Winkler (pw_lists_AT_slinkp.com)
Date: Thu May 06 2004 - 20:13:30 EEST
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!
--Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com
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