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bobspencer123
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 Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 12:34 am Post subject: usb hard drive deleting my data -- very strange problem |
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Ok I will try to explain the problem the best that I can.
I have a western digital 1tb element usb harddrive. I have it partitioned into 2 separate partitions each right around 500/500. One partition is jfs and one is xfs. I had about 70% or so of the capacity filled mainly with music files. I was copying some new music into the drive and was running "exaile" music player. I clicked the rescan collection button on exaile and suddenly my collection shrunt to like 2 albums (from like 6000 songs). I figured it must have been just a problem with the player. Well, I started exploring the the contents of the usb hard drive where the music files are stored. All the directories are there. But there is nothing in the directories. On the main partition with my "tagged" music there is only 1.2 gb of material ... down from like 350+ gb.
I have no freakin idea what happened. The drive is not making any funny noices. Dmesg gave no indication of i/o errors or anything like that. And this disappearance seemed to have happened in an instant.
If anyone has any ideas I would greatly appreciate it. I would love to be able to recover about 2 years of downloading dead and phish from etree and then pain stakingly manually tagging them with easytag.
Also, I am currently running the wd diagnostic program on windows (in my dual boot) to see if there are any problems with the drive. I also did not add any new data to the USB drive in the hopes that it can be saved if not overwritten.
Thanks,
Bob
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well just an update ... I basically have lost all my music now ... I plugged my ipod in to try to backup those songs that I have ... and wammy ... 10 minutes later after trying to transfer files it is almost completely emply (down from 20 gig to 900 mb) ... so this is definitely something related to my gentoo system and not my hardware as the extended test on my wd drive turned out fine too (9+ hours).
Here is some info:
emerge --info
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Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/x86/2008.0, gcc-4.4.1, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.30-gentoo-r5 i686)
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System uname: Linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r5-i686-AMD_Phenom-tm-_9850_Quad-Core_Processor-with-gentoo-1.12.11.1
Timestamp of tree: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 02:05:01 +0000
app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.8-r1
dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r13, 2.5.4-r3, 2.6.2-r1
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2
sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1
sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2
sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a
virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo "
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="en_US en"
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow 3dnowext X aac aalib acl alsa audiofile avi berkdb bzip2 cddb cdparanoia cdr cli cracklib crypt css cups cupsddk dbus divx dri dvd dvdr dvdread encode equalizer evo fam ffmpeg firefox flac flash foomaticdb fortran gdbm gpm hal iconv imagemagick imlib ipod ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg lame mmx mmxext mp3 mpeg mplayer mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl openmp oss pam pcre pda pdf pdflib perl png ppds pppd python readline reflection ruby samba sane scanner session shorten spl sse sse2 ssl ssse3 sysfs tcpd thunar truetype unicode usb vorbis wavpack win32codecs wma x86 xcomposite xine xorg xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CAMERAS="canon" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_US en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia"
Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
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kernel config on pastebin: http://pastebin.com/f6105a7d7
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