From: hlu@luke.eecs.wsu.edu (HJ Lu) Subject: Re: e2fsck problem.... Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1993 05:27:26 GMT
In article <1pj3c5INNsot@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> guddt@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (David Bennett) writes:
>I ran e2fsck on my hard drive today. (X windows crashed utterly and I
>had to reboot, sigh). However, it sort of doesn't appear to work... It
>flashes the light a bit, says it is connectin gthe lost chains into
>lost+found. Its also says something about there being a bad directory
>entry in loast+found. Then it sort of never comes back. I left it
>sitting there for a long time, and it did nothing whatsoever...
>
>Any help?
>(And yes, the file system was not mounted).
>
Welcome aboard. That is one reason why I am kind of reluctant
to recommand e2fs over xiafs. I still suggest to try both of
them.
Back to your problem. That is what I did:
1. unmount the ext2 fs.
2. do
e2fck -rvf /dev/xxxx
answer "Y" for all questions.
3. if fs is not ok then goto 2.
After a dozen repetition, I managed to recover my e2fs to a stage
I can continue to work. At present, I still have a strange file
"\t^A/" in lost+found which I could not get rid of. There is
a '/' in filename. I believe that causes the trouble.
H.J.