Re: Data loss on IDE drive after crash

[Gopikrishnan Sidhardhan]

On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 15:13, Gopikrishnan Sidhardhan wrote:
> 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.  

This is not quite true.  I had just written to it and closed it.  Sorry
for the confusion.



> 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
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