[lug] Directory problem

[Gary Hodges]

George Sexton wrote:
> Here's a link to a message I posted a while ago about a machine that had
> disk corruption or rebooted during heavy IO.
> 
> http://lists.lug.boulder.co.us/pipermail/lug/Week-of-Mon-20071210/035903.html
> 

I read your post.  Did you ever find a sub-system test routine?

Gary

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: lug-bounces at lug.boulder.co.us [mailto:lug-
>> bounces at lug.boulder.co.us] On Behalf Of Zan Lynx
>> Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 4:21 PM
>> To: Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [lug] Directory problem
>>
>> Gary Hodges wrote:
>>> I was moving a lot of files (many 1000s) to a directory when my
>> machine
>>> spontaneously rebooted.  First time that has ever happened (maybe an
>> ECC
>>> error???), and maybe a subject for a future post, but in the
>> meantime...
>>> I was moving these files to a directory I named 2007.  This directory
>>> currently looks like:
>>> /data1/ARM/Mentor/SGP>ls -l
>>> total 5856
>>> drwxr-xr-x 2 hodges hodges 1137544 2009-08-31 14:56 2005/
>>> drwxr-xr-x 2 hodges hodges 1127624 2009-08-31 14:55 2006/
>>> ?--------- ? ?      ?            ?                ? 2007
>>> drwxr-xr-x 2 hodges hodges  872456 2009-08-31 16:07 2007a/
>>> drwxr-xr-x 2 hodges hodges  915720 2009-08-31 14:46 2008/
>>> drwxr-xr-x 2 hodges hodges  715616 2009-08-31 14:44 2009/
>>>
>>> I can't do anything with 2007 now (cd, ls, chmod, chown, sudo or
>>> otherwise).  I know some files were put in 2007 before the reboot.  I
>>> tucked the remaining ones in 2007a for now.  Is there anything I can
>> do
>>> to resurrect directory 2007?
>> You are going to need to run a full fsck on that filesystem. After
>> that,
>> your directory may be fixed, or it or pieces of it may end up in
>> lost+found at the filesystem root.