On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 12:43:58PM -0000, beecdadd...@danwin1210.de wrote: > I have a problem where files recently downloaded go missing and it > happened over 3 times and on patition/s with enough available space > I want to verify it 1 more time before knowing hdd is failing for sure
Did you perhaps download these files to somewhere under /tmp or /var/tmp or somewwhere else volatile like a memory file system and then reboot before trying to access those downloads? In general, files do not go missing unless someone explicitly delete them, but there is a possibility that you stumbled into one of the scenarios where either a cleanup script or the volatile nature of the location you were playing with did away with the data. > so what gives? > is hdd failing? but how do entire files go missing? > maybe hdd metadata/header corruption of some kind? If a drive is failing, more likely than not you would be seeing messages in system log files or possibly even in dmesg output. Totally silent failures are not very common. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team https://bsdly.blogspot.com/ https://www.bsdly.net/ https://www.nuug.no/ "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
