On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Michael ODonnell wrote: > > >> my first guess would be that you mistakenly pointed K3b at your >> hard drive instead of the DVD drive. > > I'd think the damage would be much worse if that were the case, > so my guess is that some b0rken kernel code (or maybe a HW > problem) corrupted some memory that happened to correspond to > metadata for /var and those bad data got written back to disk.
Perhaps. Or maybe k3b only started scribbling on the /var partition, then the machine rebooted when something critical in /var was stomped on. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
