Am Die, 2002-04-16 um 10.53 schrieb Rutger Swarts: > > Hi all, > > I do not know if this is the right place to post this, but I can't think of any >better place, so here goes: > > I recently discovered that one of my files was overwritten somehow. It resides on a >reiserfs partition which is mounted read-only. The contents of the file where >overwritten with parts of other files on seemingly random places and bits of ASCII >text. > > Looking over it now I see it contains parts of win32 applications (strings like >"This program can not be run in dos mode") and XML files. I do not know if there are >any other files affected by this (quite a lot of files on that partition) but I will >check each file before I backup. > > Now my question: > > Is this a known issue? if yes: what can I do about it? if no: what information do >you need to reproduce/solve this problem? (stop it from happening again, that is) > > Rutger Swarts
Hi, do you boot the box sometimes with windows? I had a similar problem on a laptop with windows 98 and linux (with ext2). Sometimes, windows seem to overwrite the first partition and write onto the next one. This happend two times in half a year. In my case, the linux installation was no bootable any more. Hope this helps, Heinz-Josef Claes PS: No Microsoft products were used in any way for the creation of this message. If you are using a Microsoft product to view it, BEWARE! - I'm not responsible for any harm you might encounter as a result. :-)
