I've seen a couple of times that files are filled with zero's after rebooting.  
This time it was my ".bashrc" file.  I might have just powered off the 
machine, but the this file wasn't open for writing at the time of shutdown.
After turning the machine on last night, I noticed that my shell prompt had 
changed, and discovered that the file was full of ASCII null characters.

I've seen this happen a couple of times before on other machines.  Then the 
file "/usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc" had been similiarly trashed - full of 
zeros.  And, it seems that the file size was larger than usual.

I've been using the XFS filesystem on these machines for a couple of years 
now.  Is this a failure of the disk drive, or should I switch to ext3 ??

Thanks.

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