Thank you.
I think .viminfo was written right before the crash.
And there is no .viminfo~ in my directory.
But I don't understand why wrong contents appear in that file.
Perhaps I should learn more about reiserfs and jouranling :)

Regards
Liu Tao

On Friday 19 October 2001 18:19, you wrote:
> Hi
>
> Liu Tao wrote:
> > I am using 2.4.12 and all my partions are reiserfs.
> > Atfer a dirty reboot caused by an accident when i was using vim,
> > a bad .viminfo appears in my home directory.
> > Is that fs's fault?
>
> It depends from what did happen with that file right before crash.
> If vim wrote into that file right before (in 30 seconds) crash - wrong
> contents of that file after reboot is understandable behaviour of a
> filesystem which does metadata journalling only.
> If you are sure that the file was not touched recently and appeared to have
> wrong contents after dirty reboot - then something wrong happended in a
> filesystem.
>
> Is there something like .viminfo~? If yes - does its content look better?
>
> Thanks,
> vs
>
> > if this is not the correct forum, please point me the correct forum.
> >
> > Regards
> > Liu Tao
> >
> >  
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Name: .viminfo
> >    .viminfo    Type: Plain Text (text/plain)
> >            Encoding: base64

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