i've had the same thing happen to my redhat 7.2 installation about three times now. each incident occurred immediately after gnome (ximian) hung for no apparent reason and i was forced to shut down. last time, i simply reinstalled, since i had nothing of value on the machine. i used disk druid, and found that my / partition appeared empty. this time, i'd like to recover, since i have some important files on my drive. i haven't attempted to run e2fsck, since i dont have the redhat disks with me. i will run it and let you know what, if anything, i come up with. but any other suggestions would be much appreciated. i'm not having any hardware issues, so i dont think this is a hardware glitch (im using a dell insprion 8100, by the way). if anyone has any idea what might be causing this (and i suppose it is related to gnome hanging), i'd appreciate the input. pjs
