Re: Overwritten files

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

Am Mit, 2002-04-17 um 17.15 schrieb Stefan Janecek:
> On 17 Apr 2002 07:27:37 +0200
> Heinz-Josef Claes <hjclaes@web.de> wrote:
> 
> > 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
> 
> This problem really seems to exist even though rather rarely... 
> I encountered it twice in about four years on a box running windows 98 - 
> both times it crashed while writing a rather large file, after reboot
> it seemed to have written on the linux partition located behind the windows
> partition.
> 
> If you need to know the exact windows version, harddisk and disk driver
> versions etc, I can try to find that box somewhere around here ...
> 
> HTH,
> Stefan.
Oops,

I only wanted to give a hint, that perhaps the described problem has
nothing to do with reiserfs. I do not have the problem any more, because
I don't have to user windows :-).

regards,
Heinz-Josef