Re: Overwritten files

[Heinz-Josef Claes <hjclaes@web.de>]

Am Die, 2002-04-16 um 10.53 schrieb Rutger Swarts:
> 
> Hi all, 
> 
> I do not know if this is the right place to post this, but I can't think of any better place, so here goes:
> 
> I recently discovered that one of my files was overwritten somehow. It resides on a reiserfs partition which is mounted read-only. The contents of the file where overwritten with parts of other files on seemingly random places and bits of ASCII text.
> 
> Looking over it now I see it contains parts of win32 applications (strings like "This program can not be run in dos mode") and XML files. I do not know if there are any other files affected by this (quite a lot of files on that partition) but I will check each file before I backup. 
> 
> Now my question:
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> Is this a known issue? if yes: what can I do about it? if no: what information do you need to reproduce/solve this problem? (stop it from happening again, that is)
> 
> Rutger Swarts

Hi,

do you boot the box sometimes with windows? I had a similar problem on a
laptop with windows 98 and linux (with ext2). Sometimes, windows seem to
overwrite the first partition and write onto the next one. This happend
two times in half a year. In my case, the linux installation was no
bootable any more.

Hope this helps,
Heinz-Josef Claes

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