On Sun, 01 Apr 2007 11:20:35 +0200
Hudibras
I'm a SuSE Linux user since 1996-97, even a SuSE reseller from 1998 to 2001, and I've never found a problem like this, never, even in cases when I have done many "bad things" with it:
Konqueror bookmarks disapeears from time to time; a html file created by myself with all links visited every day disappears from time to time; several gigs of jpg and video files disappeared; and last I've discovered this morning all my Tellico databases disappeared !!! That's incredible!
I assure you I've done nothing so that this thing happens. My question is, what's wrong with SuSE now?
I'm using OpenSuSE 10.2, on x86_64 architecture; ext3 filesystem; KDE and GNOME; kernel 2.6.20 from repositories. I don't know what to do, but if this is the behaviour of SuSE now, I'll completely remove it, and install another distro o even change to BSD.
Thanks in advance, and I hope my poor English would be explicit enough to understand this embarrasing thing. No problem with your language.
Just a comment, I have been using SuSE for quite a while, and I have
never experienced a loss of data that I could blame on Linux.
Have you checked the lost+found directories in each of your file
systems. I am currently using 10.1 on my desktop and 10.2 on my 64-bit
laptop.
Can you elborate a bit more of how the files were lost:
1. Was it during an install?
2. Is it possible that your system was hacked?
You really need to look at your logs to try to find out why things were
deleted because I don't think the fault is with SuSE, the filesystem,
or the 2.6.20 kernel.
Additionally, boot the system into single-user mode and manually run
fsck (e2fsck) in non-destructive mode on each of your file systems.
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Jerry Feldman