I'm running an older Dell GX280, with a new 500GB drive and 2GB RAM. Fresh install with my ~
directory copied from an older HD I got the 500GB to replace. I think I'm running ext4 on both my /
and /home
partitions.
And, if I run for a few days, I lose my ~/
directory. By which I mean, I can do anything with any file and directory in ~/
if I know what I'm looking for, but if I do ls
, or try tab-completion, or try to view it in nautilus, it hangs. Then, I reboot, and everything is back together.
What is it? Where do I start looking for problems? I don't know where to start Googling for the answer.
Here's my /etc/fstab
jacoby@oz:/var/log$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=4f677505-0b67-47b0-bbb4-858ffc1fe125 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /alt was on /dev/sdb1 during installation
UUID=b0eec90c-d312-4123-b78c-7487a3347888 /alt ext4 defaults 0 2
# /home was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=1def350e-fe9a-40e3-8162-0a9f7ff8d5ef /home ext4 defaults 0 2
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=e62cd8c5-6088-44a8-84a6-7d399e42d81d none swap sw 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/var/log/dmesg
use this command to se the logfilecat /var/log/dmesg
(for the current log) andcat /var/log/dmesg.0
(for the last boot-log. Please tell if there is any error messages there. Also the output from this command might be helpfull in finding the problemmount
./usr/bin/strace -s999 /bin/ls ~
when the symptoms appear. If that doesn't hang,/usr/bin/strace -s999 /bin/ls -l ~
. You'll need to install thestrace
package first. For privacy you may want to replace some file names withxxx
. Also, does this affect only your home directory, or also other directories (e.g./bin/ls ~/bin
if you have abin
subdirectory in your home)?