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.
If you do not cleanly shutdown your machine your filesystem will not be fully commited to disk... And you will have problems like this.
What version of mandrake? mdk8.1 had a problem with not shuting down clean even when using the halt command.
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