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List:       reiserfs-devel
Subject:    [reiserfs-list] Corrupted file on poweroff
From:       Frans Englich <frans.englich () telia ! com>
Date:       2002-01-05 15:26:36
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Hi,

I experienced a file corruption a while ago, this is how it happend:

I was configuring Xfree with pico editing the /etc/X11/XF86config file on a vt 
terminal with pico. On another virtual terminal I tried to start xinit with a 
regular user. Unfortunately, xinit hanged and I had to press the reset 
button. 
On startup I didn't pay attention to what reiserfs printed about the 
fs-check(it always handles it perfectly) but when I opened 
/etc/X11/XF86config the last line contained "UUUUUUUUUUUUU". 

Well, wasn't it just me sleeping on the u-button? First of all, I must have 
saved it and then X would have told me the configuration file is broken - not 
hang(which was caused by my excellent choices in the X config file..).

System:
A clean install of Slackware 8.0
kernel 2.4.17 with preemption
A plain 25gb IDE disk on ide0 (hda)

This is what fdisk tells me about my partition table:

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3111 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1       256   2056288+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2           257      3023  22225927+   f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5           257       510   2040223+   b  Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda6           511       894   3084448+  83  Linux native
/dev/hda7           895      1532   5124703+   b  Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda8          1533      2297   6144831    b  Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda9          2298      2744   3590496   83  Linux native
/dev/hda10         2745      3000   2056288+  83  Linux native
/dev/hda11         3001      3023    184716   82  Linux swap

partition 9 is my root partition.

best regards,
Frans Englich
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