Re: HD corruption

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On Tuesday 04 May 2004 16:45, Tom 'Needs A Hat' Mitchell wrote:
>On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 01:34:07PM -0400, BlkPoohba wrote:
>> This is probably not a Fedora issue but i am using Fedora Core 1
>> so I thought I would ask.  Sunday I was able to access /mnt/Music/
>> in its entirety.  Last nite I could access everything except for
>> /mnt/Music/Full Albums.  Today I can't access anything.  When I
>> 'ls /mnt/Music/' I get:
>> ls: /mnt/Music/79?..: No such file or directory
>> ls: /mnt/Music/??????@???@ /: No such file or directory
>> ls: /mnt/Music/?
>
>....
>
>>                 &????w.?????: No such file or directory
>
>....
>
>> These are what used to be my files and directories.
>>
>> fdisk -l:
>> Disk /dev/hdb: 60.0 GB, 60022480896 bytes
>> 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 116301 cylinders
>> Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
>>
>>    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
>> /dev/hdb1             1     54662  27549616+   c  Win95 FAT32
>> (LBA) /dev/hdb2         54662    116301  31065992    c  Win95
>> FAT32 (LBA)
>>
>> When I came home Sunday afternoon my system was locked up.  I
>> rebooted and I guess everything was fine because I was able to
>> listen to my music over the web while at work.  When I got home
>> last nite i could not access the Full Albums dir.  Now all of the
>> dir look weird.
>
>Are these all FAT32 filesystems?
>How are they mounted?
>Are they only accessed by one operating system?
>
>Have you unmounted them and run a filesystem consistency checker
> (fsck -t vfat) on them.
>
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.  I also have /mnt/Video
>> which has home videos and pictures that i really don't want to
>> loose.  It would always mount at boot.  mount -t vfat /dev/hdb2
>> /mnt/Video but now i get wrong fs when trying to mount it manually
>> because it won't mount at boot
>
>Why the heck are these vfat?  Tis a fragile file system....
>
I agree, vfat has lost almost as many files for me as NTFS, which in 
my experience, has a very poor retention rate, particularly for 
important system files.
>
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