[ale] Directories swapping contents!?!?!?

[Matt Kubilus]

I've seen this before as well.  Click, drag and drop.  Many windows
users have yet to master this.  Change your permissions on the folders
themselves.  We used to have folders 'disappear' all the time to
discover accidental drags into subfolders.

Matt

On 6/27/07, W. Keith Miller <smeadspam100 at speedfactory.net> wrote:
> Certainly an interesting problem.  Without attaching significance, I
> noted that the partition types on the RAID drives were "83" not "fd".
> People on the list are correct that causes could range from PEBKAC to
> file system meta-data issues.   It would be interesting to know how long
> it took to recognize this problem. Did the directories/content switch at
> once or "bleed" over a period of time?
>
>
> K
>
> Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> > The drives are on a PCI-bus dual IDE controller, a PDC20269.
> >
> > The salient /etc/mdadm.conf lines are:
> >
> >     DEVICE /dev/hd[eg]1
> >     ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid1 num-devices=2
> >     UUID=35e5b25c:1052d6a0:6ce09651:4f073886
> >
> >
> > df -k output:
> >
> >     Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> >     /dev/hda3              8008132   1577980   6430152  20% /
> >     udev                    126620      2516    124104   2% /dev
> >     /dev/hda4             69607468  12450124  57157344  18% /aux
> >     /dev/md0             157566460 108740736  40821748  73% /mnt/md0
> >     shm                     126620         0    126620   0% /dev/shm
> >     /dev/cdrom              703330    703330         0 100% /mnt/cdrom
> >
> >
> > fdisk -l output (hde and hdg are the two 160GB drives):
> >
> >     Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80060424192 bytes
> >     255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9733 cylinders
> >     Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> >
> >        Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> >     /dev/hda1   *           1           7       56196   83  Linux
> >     /dev/hda2               8          70      506047+  82  Linux swap
> >     / Solaris
> >     /dev/hda3              71        1067     8008402+  83  Linux
> >     /dev/hda4            1068        9733    69609645   83  Linux
> >
> >     Disk /dev/hde: 163.9 GB, 163928604672 bytes
> >     255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19929 cylinders
> >     Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> >
> >        Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> >     /dev/hde1               1       19929   160079661   83  Linux
> >
> >     Disk /dev/hdg: 163.9 GB, 163928604672 bytes
> >     255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19929 cylinders
> >     Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> >
> >        Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> >     /dev/hdg1               1       19929   160079661   83  Linux
> >
> >     Disk /dev/md0: 163.9 GB, 163921461248 bytes
> >     2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 40019888 cylinders
> >     Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes
> >
> >     Disk /dev/md0 doesn't contain a valid partition table
> >
> >
> > Jim Popovitch wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 00:47 -0400, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> >>
> >>> Upon closer inspection, it appears as though within the two directories,
> >>> the directories underneath them have "shuffled" a bit - it's not a total
> >>> swap.  Some from one now appear in the other and vice versa.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Can we get some more details about this...
> >>
> >>      controller type
> >>      md0 config
> >>      df -k
> >>      fdisk -l
> >>
> >> Thx,
> >>
> >> -Jim P.
> >>
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