Am Mit, 2002-04-17 um 17.15 schrieb Stefan Janecek: > On 17 Apr 2002 07:27:37 +0200 > Heinz-Josef Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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 > > This problem really seems to exist even though rather rarely... > I encountered it twice in about four years on a box running windows 98 - > both times it crashed while writing a rather large file, after reboot > it seemed to have written on the linux partition located behind the windows > partition. > > If you need to know the exact windows version, harddisk and disk driver > versions etc, I can try to find that box somewhere around here ... > > HTH, > Stefan. Oops,
I only wanted to give a hint, that perhaps the described problem has nothing to do with reiserfs. I do not have the problem any more, because I don't have to user windows :-). regards, Heinz-Josef
