From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Bradley Chapman <kakadu@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Laptop mode causing writes to wrong sectors?
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 21:30:55 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051120213054.GA2556@spitz.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e294b46e0511170522v5762d48jcaff8413e33b2ebe@mail.gmail.com>
Hi!
> I too have been experiencing some problems with laptop-mode that may
> be similar to what was recently reported here.
>
> I have a Centrino machine (Sager NP3760, aka Clevo M375E) with a 60GB
> Hitachi TravelStar hard disk running in UDMA5 and 512MB RAM, and on
> occassions I've had random files on my /usr partition overwritten and
> both my /usr and /var filesystems quite thoroughly trashed - with
> these events usually occuring right after I'd been on battery power
> and my hard disk had been spinning up and down regularly.
>
> All my filesystems are ext3 with journaling active, and none of them
> have been messed with (i.e. resized).
Can you try ext2? Relying on journal when you are experiencing corruption
is bad idea, anyway.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-21 0:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-17 13:22 Bradley Chapman
2005-11-17 14:27 ` Bart Samwel
2005-11-17 15:41 ` Jan Niehusmann
2005-11-17 16:05 ` Bart Samwel
2005-11-17 16:22 ` Bradley Chapman
2005-11-17 21:22 ` Bart Samwel
2005-11-17 22:50 ` Bradley Chapman
2005-11-20 21:30 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
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2005-11-16 18:16 Jan Niehusmann
2005-11-16 20:06 ` Bart Samwel
2005-11-16 21:42 ` Jan Niehusmann
2005-11-17 9:25 ` Bart Samwel
2005-11-17 10:33 ` Jan Niehusmann
2005-11-17 11:36 ` Bart Samwel
2005-11-17 22:33 ` Pavel Machek
2005-11-18 18:45 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-11-18 23:20 ` Pavel Machek
2005-11-19 8:39 ` Bart Samwel
2005-11-19 9:26 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-11-19 11:10 ` Bart Samwel
2005-11-19 14:05 ` Jan Niehusmann
2005-11-19 15:30 ` Jan Niehusmann
2005-11-19 23:29 ` Bart Samwel
2005-11-19 23:45 ` Jan Niehusmann
2005-11-21 2:09 ` Bill Davidsen
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