Curious one this. Debbie powered tom (my main machine) off a bit hastily earlier (thank you Fedora for not understanding ACPI on my motherboard properly, even though Mandrake did) and I managed to lose /etc/fstab. Not nice. What was it doing open for writing at shutdown time?
Well, I think I may have got a little bit of filesystem corruption (heaven help me) as other things have been acting strange (wvdial and xcdroast - not the most reliable parts of the system anyway...).
Fingers crossed people.
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Is there some automounter thing that was doing it? Was it an oddity with XFS and was Mandrake also using XFS? I always tend to use ext3...
A comment actually from Nik Borton, who is having trouble finding any way to contact you:-
"What I wanted to say is that the problem described in the post is known, but is being claimed by the kernel developers as Not Actually A Problem At All, Ha Ha. Yes, apparently it's okay for a filesystem to trash files that haven't been modified in days after an unclean shutdown. Which is stupid too."
Hello, Nik here. This is the start of the lkml thread I was trying to tell you about... Do the symptoms match yours?
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