Hi, We have software raid level 5 using 6 IDE disks amounting to about 500Gb. Its an ext3 filesystem which is NFS exported to a number of other machines. Recently, after running /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server stop /etc/init.d/nfs-common stop /etc/init.d/nfs-common start /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server start the whole raid array is gone. The file system is consistent and is the right size but no directories! Running fsck on it just comes back ok. Should I try a later e2fsck which can handle ext3. Has the journal inode been deleted? SHould I try and remount as an ext2 system and rerun fsck? ANy ideas? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shashi Kanbur shashi@fcrao1.astro.umass.edu Five College Astronomy Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 USA (413) 577 0470 (413) 545 4223 (Fax)
Hi, On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 11:55:18AM -0400, Shashi Kanbur wrote:> the whole raid array is gone. The file system is consistent and is > the right size but no directories! > > Running fsck on it just comes back ok.Did you do "fsck -f"?> Should I try a later e2fsck which can handle ext3.e2fsck would complain loudly if it wasn't already able to handle ext3.> Has the > journal inode been deleted?No, not if the mount succeeds.> SHould I try and remount as an ext2 system > and rerun fsck?It's unlikely to help. Cheers, Stephen