Subject: Re: myseterious, dissapearing data
From: Jon Knight (J.P.Knight@lboro.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Feb 24 2000 - 05:58:30 EST
On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Wagner One wrote:
> I rebooted again and things seemed normal, so I copied the files back to the
> new volume and there they remained for a while. At some point I looked at
> the new volume and 3/4 of the files were gone and then, a little later, it
> was empty. The funny thing is, I was accessing a file from that area (a
> music file, so it was actively accessing it) and it continued to work even
> though the appletalk volume was empty. Even a dir in the shell showed it as
> empty.
The "new" 9Gb drive wasn't previously used as a scratch disc on the Linux
box was it? If so, check if you've still got a cron job that's nuking
"temporary" files in that filesystem.
Tatty bye,
Jim'll
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