Ext3 problem

[Iskandar Prins]

Problem solved. It seemed one of my sata cables was loose, I reconnected it
and and I got all my data back :-) I'm happy now.

The tip about the raid made me relook into the raid array again

Thanks for the help



On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 9:03 PM, Iskandar Prins <iskandarprins at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Yup, there is a Raid1 underlying. I'm using a *XFX REVO 64 SPU 3 Port SATA
> Raid Card **for my raid1 setup. Don't I lose my entire data when I break
> the raid?
>
> Yup, even with the fsck -f option, the drive is clean.
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> The windows was connecting via samba (hence windows).
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> On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 7:56 PM, Matija Nalis <mnalis-ml at voyager.hr>
> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 01:01:27AM +0200, Iskandar Prins wrote:
>> > At the moment I'm looking at the filesystem (onto which I made those
>> changed
>> > last week) , but it seems I'm looking at the filesystem from a month ago
>> (
>> > june 20th).
>>
>> is underlying block device a single hard disk, or maybe a RAID1 or similar
>> ?
>>
>> I had a similar problem once, which turned out to be RAID1 which was out
>> of
>> sync (but wrongly thining it is OK!), so sometimes it read "right" data
>> from
>> one disk, and some times "bad" data from other disk. Solution was to break
>> the RAID, force fsck it, and recreate the raid afterwards.
>>
>> > I did a fsck/e2fsck on the umounted devs and they can't get any cleaner.
>>
>> you did specify -f to force it, I assume ?
>>
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