Darshit Shah wrote: > I'm running Bash 4.3.30(1)-release on Arch Linux. Recently after I rebooted > by system I realized that all my Bash History had been erased. The > ~/.bash_history file existed, but it was completely empty. > > The situation occurred just now once again. I boot up my system and realize > that I have no bash history at all. The issue does not occur at every boot, > it's random and I am unable to correlate the two instances in which this has > happened to me. > > I haven't any idea as to how I should debug this problem to provide more > information. Could you please start out by helping me there?
What type of file system is your ~/.bash_history located upon? This sounds like a deja vu from the ext4 file system. Do you observe any other zero sized files after a reboot? Bob