<html><head><style type="text/css">body {word-wrap: break-word; background-color:#ffffff;}</style></head><body><div style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px">Stuart, no offence can be taken ar all - I cam see two possibilities - u did smth very stupid or its a glitch. I actually selected "shutdown" option in kde. I cant say that fsck fixed - it reported a short read. I got completely shocked and just for the hell of it ran la just to observe that. Everything is "back". Since then I copied all files. To backup lv and ran that fack. Last reported no problem. You mentioned something about extended partitions?</div> -----Original message----- <blockquote style="; border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px">From: "Stuart D. Gathman" <stuart@bmsi.com> To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com> Sent: Sun, Sep 5, 2010 19:43:49 GMT+00:00 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Important diretories are missing after adding space. </div>On Sat, 4 Sep 2010, For Miscelenious wrote: > Checked -alm directories were in place. Proceeded with creation a few large > files * also worked fine. Switched the machiine off and went to bed. > Next day booted to discover that few , but the most important, dies are > missing. The sfdisk output looks ok. Now don't be offended, just ruling out obvious things that could have gone wrong. You did shutdown before switching off the machine, right? > e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/VG_Storage-LV_00 By any chance, did fsck fix stuff? Have you looked in lost+found? -- Stuart D. Gathman <stuart@bmsi.com> Business Management Systems Inc. Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax: 703 591-6154 "Confutatis maledictis, flammis acribus addictis" - background song for a Microsoft sponsored "Where do you want to go from here?" commercial. _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm</a> read the LVM HOW-TO at <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/">http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/</a> </blockquote></body></html>