[ltp] Disk damage?

Ch. Veith linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 13 Jul 2004 22:20:02 +0200


@Marius
@Matt
ThanX.
I was not realy wondering too much aboue the fact that root could login. 
What made me wonder -i wasn't so clear in the previous mail- was that 
from the day I bought the box until yesterday the df-results in sum 
made sence in a certain tolerance (-h option etc....)

Why should it have changed this morning???

ThanX, again!






Ch. Veith wrote:
> Hello,
> I got a strange morning today...When I was booting my R40 I was 
> wondering why my normal-user could not login to X-server, but root could!
> I thought that it might be a matter of diskspace and called df -h. It 
> told me that that 0% were free - so I removed about 1GB to another 
> machine. After that I called df again and still got 0% !!!
> After some testing around I removed another 2GB, and got the following:
> 
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda2              37G   33G  1.7G  96% /
> I'm not too good in maths, but....
> 
> So I called fsck.ext3 which told me, that 7.5% of my disk were 
> non-contiguous. Are these 7.5% the missing 2GB ???
> 
> Thanks for illuming me..
> Chris