alberthrocks: maybe we won't pollute this thread? thanks for the help proposition. please contact me by email. my nickname is registered at google.

Hi,

I had lots of databases and I just realized that innoDB saved EVERY DAMN BYTE in the same huge file "ibdata1".

If something was wrecked somewhere, the whole thing got screwed up.

I think I had a disk (more probably filesystem) issue because I could not run any shell command, the (ext3) filesystem somewhat got corrupted. That's strange, because this server is not at my home but in a datacenter. However the fs was recovered at my reboot, but some inodes were lost (see my edited message).

I have established a 4-times-a-day backup that you can download it, to keep a bunch of copies in case something goes very wrong:

http://hack spire.unsads.com/hacks pire.dump
Please, just don't use it to install your own wiki, having more than one would be inefficient. This link is for backup purposes or localhost usage only.

This is not a hacking. mediawiki has recaptcha, ssh passwords are disabled and fail2ban protects the important services. I guess a filesystem corruption after a very long uptime.

Apcalc, thanks for restoring the LED data, and thanks for the welcome.