PFS (Professional File System)

[Tenacious]

I'm still trying to save my hard drives.  I have pulled them from their original home (A3000 with PIV and Cyberstorm 060) and am looking at them with another machine (A3000 with PII) one at a time.  I have gotten most of the important data backed-up.  Now I'm trying to find out what went wrong.  PFS-II is supposed to be pretty safe, after all.

Trying to access the files on my old 100 Meg boot partition, I get the following error requests:

Disk Update Failed
Wrong dirblock id
Read attempt outside partition

These show up when I try to access SYS:Prefs/Env-Arch/.  In fact, Dopus shows this directory to be empty.  This is why my machine stopped booting with this drive.  

How can a whole directory be gone?  There is still 28 Megs of free space on this partition.

Should I try to delete the Env-Archive and then re-write it?  Could this salvage the partition?  The whole hard drive?

PFS-III can't become available too soon.

[amigadave]

It's amazing that your 100mb hdd is still spinning at all.  I would not blame the file system for the failure, unless you can confirm it.

[Thomas]

The directory is not gone, it's currupted. Corruption like these happen from time to time with PFS2. I am sure you cannot delete the directory. You'll get the same error messages from the delete attempt. Run the diskvalid program to find the errors. With the fix option it will repair the partition at the expense of deleted files which might still have been accessible.

If diskvalid cannot repair the error, try the removedirentry program to remove the corrupted directory, then run diskvalid fix to free the deleted space.

[kolla]

It's amazing that your 100mb hdd is still spinning at all.

He wrote "100 Meg boot partition" - how does that become a 100mb hdd?