Re: Files gradually disappearing

From: Leura (luera_at_nospam.com)
Date: 09/09/03 

Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 10:59:25 GMT

"LEE Sau Dan" <danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> wrote in message
news:m3k78jtwb5.fsf@mika.informatik.uni-freiburg.de...
> >>>>> "Leura" == Leura <luera@nospam.com> writes:
>
> Leura> Not sure if the free space change. No corruption that I am
> Leura> aware of. I have used it continiously for a couple of
> Leura> years.
>
> So, that's a pretty old harddisk. Harddisks vary in quality. Many
> friends of mine have told me that Some cheap harddisks from 1BM do die
> short after the waranty period of 2 years. Mine has died after 3
> years.
>

I thought 2 years are short :-( I expect my investment could last a little
long.

> So, maybe your harddisk is dying. Check if that's the source of the
> problem. First, do an fsck. Next, try replacing it with another disk
> and see if the problem is gone. If you're lucky, you can temporarily
> "revive" that harddisk with a 'mke2fs -c -c' (WARNING: data on it will
> be destroyed), but it won't take long before the disk fails again.
>
>

I fsck'ed my harddisk and not physical problems reported.

> Leura> The reboot did not report disk problems. I am using IDE
> Leura> disk.
>
> What filesystem?
>

linux ext2

>
> Leura> How can I determine the hardware starts malfunctioning?
>
> fsck will bark when that's the case.
>
>

I fsck'ed. Good idea.

Now, in the same spirit, I have repartitioned and formated the disk and I
will see what happen.

When I repartitioned the disk, I noticed that the disk was partitioned into
two partitions. (I must have done that with DOS fdisk then formated to linux
ext2.) The first partition (DOS primary) was used as my backup space and the
second partition (DOS extended) was used as my data space. And, I noticed
that my backup space had been full (latest backup files are 0 sizes !). Will
it be possible that the file writing had crossed the partition boundary and
destroyed the files on the second partition, for some reasons? Has this ever
happened to someone before? (My new partition has only one partition and I
will find another disk for my backup.)

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