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31 Jul 2004


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Subject: ext3 filesystem corruption with Fedora Core 2, Test 3 with
latest 2.6.6.x kernel
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 18:11:55 -0700
From: Amit D. Chaudhary amit_ml@comcast.net
To: fedora-list@redhat.com,  linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
What happened:
I got filesystem corrupted yesterday when using a Fedora Core 3, Test 3
with linux kernel 2.6.6-1.435.
The filesystems were /boot and /, particularly files under /bin were
missing including /bin/sh, /etc/fstab, etc.
kernel images, and other files under /boot had disappeared.
Setup:
The desktop is a HP with a P3 700 with 512 MB RAM, 2 HDD, this happenned
on ide0 (hda1 and hda3)
The ext3 filesystems had the default journaling mode.
How I ran into it:
I ran vncserver from one of the mingetty (text) consoles, I am still
trying it out and used an incorrect xstartup. Anyways, I did not connect
to vnc, decided to log onto another mingetty (CTRL+ALT+2), this took the
login name and hung.
Now the computer went into a hard hang (No Oops, CTRL+ALT+DEL, etc did
not work.)
On a reboot using grub directly went into Windows (it is a dual boot
system). Using the rescue disk, I noticed, since it did not mount
/dev/hda1 as /boot, the old /boot was being effective and suprisingly
did not have a link entry.
I have reinstalled the OS, so no direct help is needed.
Thought should email it to the list for information and if someone knows
which release this happens in and is there a fix to it.
Thanks
Amit