On Mon, March 11, 2024 4:41 pm, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 12:43:58PM -0000, beecdadd...@danwin1210.de > wrote: > >> I have a problem where files recently downloaded go missing and it >> happened over 3 times and on patition/s with enough available space I >> want to verify it 1 more time before knowing hdd is failing for sure > > Did you perhaps download these files to somewhere under /tmp or /var/tmp > or somewwhere else volatile like a memory file system and then reboot > before trying to access those downloads?
didn't reboot, and I didn't mention but other files both from yt-dlp and the folder structure of torrenting are there, and yt-dlp said that video and other files are downloaded and the torrent file that is missing I did use and don't remember deleting it and yt-dlp videos I wouldn't delete I am 100% sure because I don't delete what I didn't watch and this happened multiple times once it happened to 2 videos that were downloaded almost at the same time and at least 1 more previous case so I really think I am not imagining this.. > In general, files do not go missing unless someone explicitly delete > them, but there is a possibility that you stumbled into one of the > scenarios where either a cleanup script or the volatile nature of the > location you were playing with did away with the data. I know /tmp is cleared every time and OpenBSD did fsck on reboot and says clean filesystem is ok >> so what gives? is hdd failing? but how do entire files go missing? maybe >> hdd metadata/header corruption of some kind? > > If a drive is failing, more likely than not you would be seeing messages > in system log files or possibly even in dmesg output. Totally silent > failures are not very common. > > -- > Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team > https://bsdly.blogspot.com/ https://www.bsdly.net/ https://www.nuug.no/ > "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" > delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds. what system log files? thank you for time, tell me if more info can help, I don't see anything in dmesg output I just hope older files aren't getting deleted :(
