From: "Marcel Partap" Subject: Re: fsck ate my ext4 home partition, help!? Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 17:06:25 +0200 Message-ID: <20090505150625.137720@gmx.net> References: <20090504131128.135100@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: Christian Kujau Return-path: Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:43155 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751424AbZEEPG3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 May 2009 11:06:29 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Ok, i see more clearly now the vast extents of my stupidity, and the ga= p between perception and reality: - the partition is and has been ext3 all the way (sorry linux-ext4 for = misspamming!) - i treated /proc/mounts with ignorance - it seems out of lazyness i did not actually check lsof/ mount point t= he way i should have (ouch! what i did was as good indeed as not doing = anything.. looking/grepping for the WRONG mount path eew) - the BOINC daemon was running and holding locks on its working directo= ry, even still until i just shut it down. SHEESH! Sometimes it just nee= ds a couple more iterations of rereconsidering the actual situation. So people, treat your filesystems with the respect and attention they d= eserve. And TRUST warning messages spit out by highly adept file system= tools MORE than your intuition. These tools *do* work as advertised. Well and the point about backing up precious stuff -=3D[before]=3D- kno= cking out your FS structures already has been made before i guess. regards marcel. --=20 Neu: GMX FreeDSL Komplettanschluss mit DSL 6.000 Flatrate + Telefonansc= hluss f=FCr nur 17,95 Euro/mtl.!* http://dslspecial.gmx.de/freedsl-surf= flat/?ac=3DOM.AD.PD003K11308T4569a -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html