Public bug reported: I just had a really strange behavior here that is really hard to describe and find a summary for:
I bootet my computer, fsck told me my /home's ext4 partition was corrupt. It ask me whether to recover myself or automatically. I had it recover automatically. It did so, the desktop bootet and soon I found out: my pidgin config, my latest firefox bookmarks, my evolution config was gone / broken. And all the files I had created yesterday were gone, too. My lost+found folder was filled with gconf xml files and firefox cache files (flash apples, images, css, ...). I'm not sure whether all the files broken / gone were there but at least I found some that were promising (for example my evolution config). So I copied the lost+found and tried to recover my files. There were lots of files and after a while I thought: Well, maybe fsck can do something here for me, let's reboot in single user mode and run fsck manually on the /home partition. I did so and fsck said everything was clean. I forced a check, but still no issues. I was disappointed because I thought I had to recover my lost files from lost+found myself, so I mounted /home and finished the boot. And then I found out: Everything was ok again! Nothing is missing, all files are back where they were! My latest created files, my configs, ... Everything works fine again! But all the things I have done trying to recover my "lost" files were undone. What happend here!? Did anyone have the same bug in the past? Any explainations? This bug is really really strange! (I backupped all the /var/log when all the files were back - what do you need?) ** Affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- fsck "recovers" ext4 data that reappears after reboot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/606889 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs