Re: Files gradually disappearing

From: Leura (luera_at_nospam.com)
Date: 09/10/03 

Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 10:19:24 GMT

"Leura" <luera@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:hoi7b.90812$bo1.11052@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
>
> "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.)
>
>

The files I copied to the new partitioned disk yesterday now start
disappearing again today and left some empty folders. So it should be
nothing to do with partitioning.

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