From: Gopikrishnan Sidhardhan <gs33@eng.buffalo.edu>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Data loss on IDE drive after crash
Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 15:29:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1085081357.2044.1.camel@cassius.public.buffalo.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40AD0365.6040003@eng.buffalo.edu>
On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 15:13, Gopikrishnan Sidhardhan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am running Fedora Core 2 on an Athlon 2500+ machine with Samsung
> Spinpoint SP0411N 40GB hard drive. When trying to configure the X
> server for an Nvidia card, the machine froze (this is not the problem).
> Since I did not have access to any other machines on the network at the
> time, I hard rebooted it.
>
> At that point, I had my X configuration file open.
This is not quite true. I had just written to it and closed it. Sorry
for the confusion.
> My root partition is
> a small ext2 partition, and on reboot the machine fscked this partition
> and gave me a message like "Deleted i-node for /etc/X11/xOrg.conf
> CLEARED" (This is from memory). On reboot, I found that the X config
> file mentioned above had been erased. Not a trace of it remained..:-)
>
> I don't know if this is a known issue, but I sure would like to hear an
> explanation. The kernel is the stock kernel provided along with Fedora
> Core 2 (2.6.5-1.358).
>
> Problem is. I can't do more testing for this. This is a machine I use
> extensively and I don't want the yank the power on it too much.
>
> Thanks,
> --Gopi
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-20 19:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-20 19:13 Gopikrishnan Sidhardhan
2004-05-20 19:29 ` Gopikrishnan Sidhardhan [this message]
2004-05-20 21:33 ` Francois Romieu
2004-05-20 21:53 ` Gopikrishnan Sidhardhan
2004-05-20 22:21 ` Francois Romieu
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