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older = folder

ASKER

I dident delete anything though. How would it get deleted by itsself?

How did you shutdown?

I mean : by the power switch? Some disks don't like it.

;JOOP!

ASKER

I did:

shutdown -h now

Whats the problem with that?

Well, was the system really down when you switched power off?

;JOOP!

ASKER

IT TURNED THE POWER OFF FOR ME!!! LOL

ASKER

I did not once touch the power button until I went to turn the power back on :0

There is no reason then to 'LOL'.

I'm afraid this spontaneous loss of a directory is a bad sign with respect to your disk.
You're not the first one to have disk problems like these.

Please try to repair acc. to the suggestion by da99rmd; then save your files; finally inspect your disk further.
;JOOP!

ASKER

Its a brand new hard drive, I got it about 3 weeks ago.

-Brian

I'm working on a 45 Tb system with zillions of brand new 250Gb drives in Raid-10 configurations
and within one week I had to replace 3 disks.

So, what do YOU mean to say about brand new disks?

Do a bad block scan and if it turns out bad, return it to the shop!

;JOOP!

Then you have a lot of porn :)

Try my solution and it server will live again, just to be carfull run a fsck on the disk when you have created the map but i think it just the matter with that map being lost. If the shutdown was the way you described it.

/Rob

Watch your words, da99rmd, I'm working for the Dutch Central Bank ........

;JOOP!

Peeyush_Maurya

linux rescue from installation CD(press F5 to see options or type 'linux rescue')
#mkdir /initrd

sure shot answer

Regards,
Peeyush
http://geocities.com/peeyush_maurya/

LOL, sciuriware

Have you tried my solution BrianGEFF719 ?

/Rob

ASKER

Ok, booted up with bootdisk and ofcourse with my Luck "Cannot find any linux partitions"....pulling out drive to return as I am typing this.

ASKER

ITs weird though, cuz when my system goes to boot it will startup and everything, I mean, bios finds the drive and begins to load the boot record and everything, but the rescue couldnt find the linux partition, what do u guys think is going on?

ASKER

Sometimes the drive is miss reported by bios as a weird name like, instead of Maxtor it will call it a "Baxtor" or "Laxtor", its really weird.

Try to reconnect the drive, and maybe change the jumper setting to cabel select if its possible for the other devices.
The disk it doesent sound strange in any way ?
Try booting in to rescue mode and try to manuly run a mount or a fsck if you know the hd[abcd][1234567890] number of the disk.

If this doesnt solve the problem it probobly broken and have to be replaced, it was new right.

/Rob