Subject: Re: myseterious, dissapearing data
From: Wagner One (wagner@enteract.com)
Date: Thu Feb 24 2000 - 08:17:29 EST
On 2/24/00 4:58 AM, Jon Knight wrote:
Nope, it was previously another Netatalk volume. I didn't change anything
about it except the shared volume name in the Appletalk.x netatalk config
file and then reshared it.
I think I'll format it and give it another chance before I write off the
drive.
>> 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.
-- wagner@enteract.com, wagner@well.com, wagner@teamschoeps.org "Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it." - HR
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