From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Heinz-Josef Claes Subject: Re: Overwritten files Date: 17 Apr 2002 07:27:37 +0200 Sender: hjclaes@web.de Message-ID: <1018978845.1035.5.camel@lappix> References: <20020416105325.2a854a19.ikkeswar@dds.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: In-Reply-To: <20020416105325.2a854a19.ikkeswar@dds.nl> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Rutger Swarts Cc: reiserfs-list 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: > > 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 PS: No Microsoft products were used in any way for the creation of this message. If you are using a Microsoft product to view it, BEWARE! - I'm not responsible for any harm you might encounter as a result. :-)