From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Heinz-Josef Claes Subject: Re: Overwritten files Date: 19 Apr 2002 07:41:52 +0200 Sender: hjclaes@web.de Message-ID: <1019194872.1074.3.camel@lappix> References: <20020416105325.2a854a19.ikkeswar@dds.nl> <1018978845.1035.5.camel@lappix> <20020417171507.74184f14.stefan.janecek@jku.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: In-Reply-To: <20020417171507.74184f14.stefan.janecek@jku.at> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Stefan Janecek Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com Am Mit, 2002-04-17 um 17.15 schrieb Stefan Janecek: > On 17 Apr 2002 07:27:37 +0200 > Heinz-Josef Claes 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