Ext3 problem
Eric Sandeen
sandeen at redhat.com
Sat Jul 12 23:30:57 UTC 2008
Iskandar Prins wrote:
> Hey All,
>
> I have a serious and weird problem with my harddrive and ext3. About a
> week ago I re-arranged my entire directory structure. I moved, deleted,
> renamed files and dirs. I did some reboots and shutdowns in the mean
> time. And all was fine, up until now.
>
> At the moment I'm looking at the filesystem (onto which I made those
> changed last week) , but it seems I'm looking at the filesystem from a
> month ago ( june 20th).
>
> Now I have a couple of questions:
>
> - How could this have happened?
No idea.
> - Is this a journaling problem?
It is, but...
> If so, how can I fix this and get the
> filesystem back from july 12th instead of looking at the filesystem how
> it was on june 20th.
... that's not what journaling does I'm afraid.
> I did a fsck/e2fsck on the umounted devs and they can't get any cleaner.
I don't suppose you changed hard drives and you're looking at the old
one? :)
-Eric
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