On 8/21/06, Joco Salvatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all,
Today, when trying to upload a file to my server, I found out that the
server was frozen. Then I restarted it... The fsck ran normally, and
everything was fine, and finally all the system partitions were
mounted, but the one in which my website was. I've already umounted
and mounted the partition a thousand times, and also ran fsck a lot of
times, but I've got nothing. It looks like all my data were lost. I
just don't have any idea of what could have hapenned. I believe no one
has hacked my server because there is no ssh running and ftp is only
being served to my localnet. Can anyone help me with this issue? Is
there any way to recover my data? I do have a backup, but it is rather
old ...
It's good you've been keeping at least some backups...
Anyway, probably the disklabel got corrupt. try scan_ffs, and then go
remake the disklabel by hand. It would be very unlikely that you'd
lose everything, however some freak bug might have overwritten the
entire disk. In that case you are out of luck.
This happened to me on my windows' computer with all my media on it.
Sucked. A lot. But I was able to get my files back. It only took 5
days.
-Nick