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From: n952162 <n952162@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What's the value-added of journaling filesystems like ext4?
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 20:45:32
Message-Id: 25ad8e56-7142-94c7-5999-12cf2e1f540c@web.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] What's the value-added of journaling filesystems like ext4? by n952162
1 trying to restore ... virtualbox won't come up (I was in virtualbox when
2 my window manager lost mouse coordination and I hat to "reboot").
3
4 I see that many of the files in /lost+found have virtualbox strings in
5 them.  Anybody have an idea how to get them back to their proper places?
6
7
8 On 11/04/19 20:47, n952162 wrote:
9 > I had a power-loss situation and when the system came up I went into the
10 > grub rescue screen - my root file system was trashed.  I fsck-ed that
11 > and had a ton of prompts until I did the "all" answer.  I guess it can
12 > happen, every once in a while - even with a journaling filesystem - I
13 > guess.
14 >
15 > I was able to bring up the system but then discovered that my home
16 > filesystem was also trashed, hundreds of files in lost+found and many
17 > gone forever.
18 >
19 > Both filesystems ext4.
20 >
21 > What gives?  Should I have quick  gone out and bought a lottery ticket,
22 > or is journalling just hype?
23 >
24 >

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Re: [gentoo-user] What's the value-added of journaling filesystems like ext4? mad.scientist.at.large@××××××××.com