From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stefan Janecek Subject: Re: Overwritten files Date: 21 Apr 2002 20:00:14 +0200 Message-ID: <1019412014.1898.4.camel@ising> References: <20020416105325.2a854a19.ikkeswar@dds.nl> <1018978845.1035.5.camel@lappix> <20020417171507.74184f14.stefan.janecek@jku.at> <1019194872.1074.3.camel@lappix> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: In-Reply-To: <1019194872.1074.3.camel@lappix> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 07:41, Heinz-Josef Claes wrote: > 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 :-). .... lucky guy ;-) Stefan. > > regards, > Heinz-Josef > > >