On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, James McKain [Gmail] wrote: > I'm having a strange problem I've never seen before. Sometimes my system > crashes What's wrong with this system that it sometimes just "crashes"? >, and upon restart I am missing *at least* a handful of files. They > are completely gone and untraceable. At first I forced fsck on reboot, and > that helped recover some of them, but the problem continues. Anything related in the logs, does fsck report anything during bootup? > My system just crashed today, and now that I'm back up and running there is > one file in particular that is completely gone. I haven't touched this file > in months, and it just up and disappeared. Did anything show up in /lost+found? > I checked with Seagate to see if my drive was part of the recall, it's not. Speaking of drive errors: did you test your drive, can you read from the beginning to the end of it without any errors? Christian. -- If you want to contact Bruce Schneier, just type his name into your shell prompt. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
