Ubuntu has corrupted my file !

James Gray james at grayonline.id.au
Tue Nov 14 11:57:19 UTC 2006


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On 14/11/2006, at 7:59 PM, sebastien wrote:

> ARGH ! ! !
>
> Dont understand what has happened.
> Yesterday I was working under openoffice spreadsheet normally & shut
> down as usual (as far as I can remember).
>
> This morning Ubuntu's boot make a fsck (check forced, boot 30 times
> without check). And I cannot access to my file ! My so precious  
> file on
> which I have worked so much !

AFAIK only non-journalling file systems impose this mandatory fsck  
after a certain number of reboots etc.  Why not use (at least) ext3  
or reiserfs/jfs/xfs???

Secondly, I doubt *very* much that Ubuntu (Linux) is solely  
responsible for your dilemma - are you sure there's not an underlying  
hardware issue (like a dying hard drive?).  What's the output of  
"badblocks /dev/???" where ???=your hard drive.

> When I open it OO says 'general I/O error'.

Tried copying it to a new file name and openning that?  No idea if  
that will fix anything, but I've seen stranger things in the past  
work ;)

> How can I recover it if I can ? I fear everything's lost. But why ?

See above :)

> Im disappointed I thought Id never have this kind of problem in such a
> stable OS. There might be a solution, no ?

Stop using an ancient file system - backup your data (completely),  
and reformat with filesystem that supports journalling.  If your  
partition is ext2, you can migrate to ext3 without reformatting:
http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/ext2toext3.htm

Good luck,

James
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