[dundee] Virtual machines can trash your system

[gordon dunlop]

I did not fully explain things in my post, being a bit stressed out. The
partition manager I used had full ext2/3 support so it wasn't this. In
order to fully utilise my disk space for the new Fedora 7 partitions, I
had to move 2 partitions, each with an operating system, it was either
this or buying a new hard disk. I did not have enough disk space to copy
and paste partitions (which is recommended). The Xandros partition that
was moved is fully functional, only the Fedora 6 partition has inode
errors. All other partitions and operating systems in the 2 sata disks
are O.K. (Windows XP, Ubuntu, SuSE 10.2, Xandros, Mandriva 2007 &
PCLinuxOS). Initial investigation indicated errors that might be
associated with the large VM file in Fedora 6, but after a crash course
in ext2/3 file systems over the past 2 days, maybe not. Disk hardware
has been tested and found to be O.K. Googling over the past 2 days has
revealed that other people has had similar problems (even system
administrators). There are number of proposed solutions,  which I am now
studying, and over the next few days I will be trying out. The fsck
programme that I was using to correct errors had a bug in it, therefore
I am using the most up to date version and it has corrected a large
number of errors. The Knoppix live CD seems to be the best for
diagnostic tools. My wife can still do her work as 90% of her documents
are backed up to another partition, it was one directory that I had
missed. This data can be recovered, but I am looking to do a full
restore of the partition and operating system. I will let you know how I
get on later in the week and hopefully I  will  have a fuller
understanding of what had happened and the solution to it.

Gordon



Andrew Clayton wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 00:03:06 +0100, gordon dunlop wrote:
>
>   
> You failed to mention what virtualisation method you're using... xen?
> kvm? something else?
>
> Also a detailed list of disks/partitions and whats installed where may
> help.
>
> Does the partition manager you used understand ext[23] filesystems?
> such as parted with certain restrictions...
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