From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265233AbUETT3V (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 May 2004 15:29:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265240AbUETT3V (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 May 2004 15:29:21 -0400 Received: from coldfront.acsu.buffalo.edu ([128.205.6.89]:65445 "HELO front.acsu.buffalo.edu") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S265233AbUETT3S (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 May 2004 15:29:18 -0400 Subject: Re: Data loss on IDE drive after crash From: Gopikrishnan Sidhardhan To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <40AD0365.6040003@eng.buffalo.edu> References: <40AD0365.6040003@eng.buffalo.edu> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: State University of New York at Buffalo Message-Id: <1085081357.2044.1.camel@cassius.public.buffalo.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 15:29:17 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/