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ZFS on Linux gets corrupted on export
I just started experimenting with ZFS on Linux. I use Sabayon Linux with kernel 3.8. I used a whole single USB disk to create a pool. I tried to do only the basics
zpool create -f testing ...
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Do journaling filesystems guarantee against corruption after a power failure?
I am asking this question on behalf of another user who raised the issue in the Ubuntu chat room.
Do journaling filesystems guarantee that no corruption will occur if a power failure occurs?
If this ...
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System crashes during boot while mounting /lib/init/rw
After a nasty crash, my system keeps crashing during boot. After a little bit of investigation I have discovered that it crashes executing the following function (in /lib/inin/mount_functions):
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Subversion: how to determine when files became corrupt
I'm using Subversion just for private synchronization between a laptop and a desktop. Recently I discovered that several ASCII files and several binary files were corrupted. Instead of the expected ...
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FS corruption just a coincidence?
Yesterday I replaced one of the HDDs in my remote server. The setup is simple - Debian Linux (testing), software RAID 5, LVM with 4 partitions on it, home, var, usr, and swap.
I pulled the old disk, ...
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How to recover a corrupted “tar.gz” file
I suddenly needed to recover an old tar.gz file, but as soon as I execute so:
tar -zxvf filename.tar.gz
I get this:
gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated
tar: Child returned ...
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SD card corrupt and stuck at 32MB, any way to fix it?
Using the Linux area since I'm using Linux apps and utilities.
My phone crashed (several times) and managed to corrupt my microSD card. It no longer appears to have partitions and shows as 32MB ...
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recover corrupted directory from ext3 partition
It's my mounted directory that I want to restore folder ostani. It contains many PHP, CSS, Javascript, etc. files. How can I access it? I use dd_rhelper to create an image and tried to fsck to repair ...
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Memory Stick Partially Corrupt
My memory stick has recently become partially corrupt and has slowly been getting worse. About a week ago or so I unzipped a Windows .rar archive and placed the contents unto the flash drive, I ...
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Finding corrupted files
I have a directory that have zillions of files. As soon as I try to copy this directory, I receive a message that a file could not be copied (corrupt ?) and the copy stops.
Is there any command I ...
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File size of 60.0 PB is wrong. Can deleting it cause data loss?
While backing up some data (a 200 GB home directory) with rsync, I got an I/0 error for a particular file, after which rsync continued on "normally" with its backup. The problem source file showed as ...
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Disk filename corruption
Using QNX unix filesystem.
The files once written with good file names in a good directory and partition get corrupted in their filenames. Some of the files remain in good shape in the same ...
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ReFS but for Linux
Microsoft is going to bring a "Resilient FileSystem" with Windows 8, but only for servers. I'd like that on a Linux desktop, but my search reveals no contender. There are so many filesystems for ...
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Lost files copied to a USB ZIP drive on Ubuntu
I have a problem regarding copying of files using Ubuntu's copy feature.
The problems goes on like this:
I copy a specific folder to my ZIP drive by creating a new folder each day (Backup). Now copy ...
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Did `sudo init 6` cause my file system to be corrupted?
I was developing some code and had open qtcreator (software development IDE), gnome-terminal, and possibly firefox. I needed to restart to test something. So i restarted using sudo init 6. When my ...
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How to check if a file is corrupt or not?
Are there any general solutions to check if a file is corrupt or not? For example, whether a video file is bad, or a compressed file is corrupt, etc.
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Problem on Linux NAND Root Filesystem
I'm have a JFFS2 root filesystem running on a large NAND device. Every once in a while, when I restart the computer, I get error messages about invalid ELF headers when /sbin/init or /bin/login try ...
