On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 14:57 -0800, Ken Hill wrote: > I closed the screen of the laptop and I went to bed. The battery ran > out of juice, thus, the drive was probably not properly unmounted. > However, I saved the file before closing the screen of the laptop; > wouldn't that of saved the file even if the drive unmounted > improperly?
Ouch. If you saved the file, and very shortly after closed the screen, then their could be a chance that the filesystem writes were still cached in RAM. The only way to be fairly certain that the file is fully stored on disk before something that might prematurely halt the system is to use a journaling filesystem (ext3, xfs, reiserfs, jfs) and run the sync command before leaving the system. I would have thought that the powermanager stuff would do a 'sync' before putting the system in standby, maybe I am mistaken, if that did happen, maybe the filesystem is not a journaling filesystem, and there was some fs corruption when the system was shut down, and the file got disconnected with the fs-check. Maybe take a peak at the filesystem root for where you saved the file, and look for a directory called "lost+found" and see if it contains any files. If there are a few, maybe in that directory try: file * and see if there are an files identified as "gzip compressed data" _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
