[OLUG] fsck is deleting my files

[puzzled]

  Isn't there a sync called during a cron run on a regular basis? Why not add one if there isn't ...



Adam Lassek wrote:

> Mike McNally wrote:
> >
> > I suffer from occassional momentary voltage outages at my residence, and
> > I have not purchased a ups.  I use my pc's thinking, if I save
> > frequently I don't need a ups just yet.  But here's the problem:  When
> > my winbox and linuxbox reset:
> > 1) the winbox reboots running scandisk and automatically fixing any
> > problem with no data loss;
> > 2) the linuxbox requires root to run fsck, which I do, and I answer yes
> > to the questions regarding do I want this or that fixed, and it deletes
> > pretty much any files created with vim in the last day or so.
> >
> > So what's the deal with this fsck program?  I see that you can run
> > e2fsck with a -n flag to tell it no to all questions.  How should I run
> > this program to avoid this happening again?
>
> The deal with fsck is that since the ext2 filesystem isn't journaled, it
> doesn't save the filesystem until it's unmounted, and if it's not
> unmounted correctly (power outage, reset, etc.), you'll very likely lose
> anything you did recently. If this is the case, you deffinately need to
> consider a UPS, if nothing more then for the sake of your hardware. Bad
> bad things can happen to a computer on an unpredictable power line.
>
> It also wouldn't hurt to look into upgrading to a journaling filesystem
> on Linux--I believe ext3 is in alpha, and there's ReiserFS as well,
> which is even included with SuSE 6.3 if I'm not mistaken.
> >
> >
> >
> > Mike
> >
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