Re: Files gradually disappearing

From: Leura (luera_at_nospam.com)
Date: 09/12/03


Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 04:06:03 GMT


>
> Then, try "mount -o remount,ro" on some affected partitions and see if
> the files there still disappear. This may also help isolating h/w
> problems from misbehaving programs, unless the latter is smart enough
> to remount the partitions r/w to do its work, and remount it back to
> r/o to prevent you from discovering them.
>
>

I will try this soon.

> Leura> /cvsroot /www /downloads /manuals
>
> Leura> the files disappear from all above directories and their
> Leura> subdirectories. The directories themself are remain but
> Leura> empty.
>
> So, nothing under /usr are disappearing? Do you have all partitions
> using the same filesystem (ext2)? How about the mount options? (cat
> /proc/mounts)
>
>

No, nothing disappearing from /usr or any system directories, which are all
on another disk that is not shared by NFS nor samba.

As I posted, now I have only one partition using liunxu ext2 and it was
still losing files.

The result of cat /proc/mounts for the disk is

/dev/hdb1 /data ext2 rw 0 0



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