From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264444AbUETTHY (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 May 2004 15:07:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265116AbUETTHY (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 May 2004 15:07:24 -0400 Received: from fate.eng.buffalo.edu ([128.205.25.5]:19161 "EHLO fate.eng.buffalo.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264444AbUETTHX (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 May 2004 15:07:23 -0400 Message-ID: <40AD0365.6040003@eng.buffalo.edu> Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 15:13:41 -0400 From: Gopikrishnan Sidhardhan User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (Windows/20040502) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Data loss on IDE drive after crash Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-DCC-Buffalo.EDU-Metrics: fate.eng.buffalo.edu 1029; Body=0 Fuz1=0 Fuz2=0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, I am running Fedora Core 2 on an Athlon 2500+ machine with Samsung Spinpoint SP0411N 40GB hard drive. When trying to configure the X server for an Nvidia card, the machine froze (this is not the problem). Since I did not have access to any other machines on the network at the time, I hard rebooted it. At that point, I had my X configuration file open. My root partition is a small ext2 partition, and on reboot the machine fscked this partition and gave me a message like "Deleted i-node for /etc/X11/xOrg.conf CLEARED" (This is from memory). On reboot, I found that the X config file mentioned above had been erased. Not a trace of it remained..:-) I don't know if this is a known issue, but I sure would like to hear an explanation. The kernel is the stock kernel provided along with Fedora Core 2 (2.6.5-1.358). Problem is. I can't do more testing for this. This is a machine I use extensively and I don't want the yank the power on it too much. Thanks, --Gopi