sorry, I did'nt quite understand what you were doing..<br>still sounds complex I need a diagram?<br><br>when repairing filesystem with live cd's et al, then make sure you've got the same filesystem version and associated tools working it, or major snaffu will happern. That's what single user mode is for, as you can check fs in this state.<br><br>ex2/ext3 should support large files no problem. you use to have to patch libc6 to use largefile support, but that was ages ago, you don't on any modern linux distro.<br><br><br>hmm, some how this filesystem has got corrupted, it would'nt anything to do with sparse files would it, could that can cause a bit of confusion??<br><br><br><br><b><i>gordon dunlop <gordon@zubenel.freeserve.co.uk></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> I did not fully explain things in my post, being a bit stressed out. The<br>partition manager I used had full
ext2/3 support so it wasn't this. In<br>order to fully utilise my disk space for the new Fedora 7 partitions, I<br>had to move 2 partitions, each with an operating system, it was either<br>this or buying a new hard disk. I did not have enough disk space to copy<br>and paste partitions (which is recommended). The Xandros partition that<br>was moved is fully functional, only the Fedora 6 partition has inode<br>errors. All other partitions and operating systems in the 2 sata disks<br>are O.K. (Windows XP, Ubuntu, SuSE 10.2, Xandros, Mandriva 2007 &<br>PCLinuxOS). Initial investigation indicated errors that might be<br>associated with the large VM file in Fedora 6, but after a crash course<br>in ext2/3 file systems over the past 2 days, maybe not. Disk hardware<br>has been tested and found to be O.K. Googling over the past 2 days has<br>revealed that other people has had similar problems (even system<br>administrators). There are number of proposed solutions, which I am
now<br>studying, and over the next few days I will be trying out. The fsck<br>programme that I was using to correct errors had a bug in it, therefore<br>I am using the most up to date version and it has corrected a large<br>number of errors. The Knoppix live CD seems to be the best for<br>diagnostic tools. My wife can still do her work as 90% of her documents<br>are backed up to another partition, it was one directory that I had<br>missed. This data can be recovered, but I am looking to do a full<br>restore of the partition and operating system. I will let you know how I<br>get on later in the week and hopefully I will have a fuller<br>understanding of what had happened and the solution to it.<br><br>Gordon<br><br><br><br>Andrew Clayton wrote:<br>> On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 00:03:06 +0100, gordon dunlop wrote:<br>><br>> <br>> You failed to mention what virtualisation method you're using... xen?<br>> kvm? something else?<br>><br>> Also a detailed list of
disks/partitions and whats installed where may<br>> help.<br>><br>> Does the partition manager you used understand ext[23] filesystems?<br>> such as parted with certain restrictions...<br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> dundee GNU/Linux Users Group mailing list<br>> dundee@lists.lug.org.uk http://dundee.lug.org.uk<br>> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dundee<br>> Chat on IRC, #tlug on dundee.lug.org.uk<br>><br>><br>> <br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>dundee GNU/Linux Users Group mailing list<br>dundee@lists.lug.org.uk http://dundee.lug.org.uk<br>https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dundee<br>Chat on IRC, #tlug on dundee.lug.org.uk<br></blockquote><br><p> 
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