A few days ago my system[*], which had run for about
three weeks at 0% idle (rc5 client) with no problems,
I shut it down and restarted it 12 hours later. I
got lots of errors, and init went on strike. When I
booted a rescue-ramdisk, I saw that my /etc had gone
away. The directory had turned into a zero-byte-file
with no permissions at all.
After running e2fsck, I got all my /etc/* files/dirs
(with numbers as names) in /lost+found. No data was
lost. I'm still trying to guess all the filenames,
lucky that I had an old "locate etc" output.
The partition is hda5, root and mounted rw. Until I
had shutted down the system, there were no errors,
the system was cleanly stopped.
hda has S.M.A.R.T capabilities, hda5 no physical
errors on it. Any ideas?
ciao,
johnny
[*] IBM6x86P166+ @ 133 MHz, 48MB EDO, VirgeDX VGA,
ISA: Fritz!A1, NE2000 ethernet, SBPro/WSS compat.,
hda: 1month-old Seagate ST21xxx 1.6gig, / on hda5 rw,
hdb: BTC-CDROM 6x
hdc/hdd: 2xST3290A (roughly 300MB each), 50MB swap on one
Linux 2.0.33 w/ some non-fs-related patches
(at least vga64kb, volatile-Bug, penguin)
compiled for DCPU=586 with gcc2.8.0 -O2 -mpentium
-malign-functions/-loops/-jumps=0
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