On Sat, 2012-11-24 at 05:20 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > d) hard and difficult to reproduce > > > you're _really_ going to have to include logs. > > No luck, yet. So far, I have always found myself with a shredded > partition, but haven't found indication for what could have caused the > shredding in any log, yet. Together, storage.log, program.log and syslog ought to record all relevant actions. storage.log and program.log should record formatting and bootloader writing actions, and syslog should ID the disks. > > There is > > no possible way we can figure out what happened without the install > > logs. > > Correct, that's why I haven't BZ'ed it, yet and am telling you about it, > here. > > This doesn't invalidate the fact, I am experiencing issues of this kind > with this particular machine and this particular external HD every now > and then (non deterministic, sporatic). However, like I said before, I > have not been able to identify the cause and am only "wild guessing". is it possible the BIOS is changing the drive order for some reason and you're not noticing? -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test