The other day I had a serious problem with my Debian laptop. I rarely run it on batteries but a couple of days ago I did just that. After it had been idle for around 2 hours I went to try and use it. No response to any keys, so I powered it down. When it came back up the Debian partition was totally corrupted. I must've let fsck run for 20 or 30 minutes before I finally decided it wasn't going to be useable even if the fsck ever finished. So I reinstalled.
Has anyone ever seen this happen? My only vague suspicion is that it tried to do a suspend-to-disk, or something similar, and that corrupted my disk. Either that or I wasn't patient enough to wait until it resumed from such a suspend (I probably waited about a minute or so before I powered it down). The laptop is a Dell Latitude C840 and the partition type was ext3. It was running a mixed testing/unstable version of Debian. I'd really like to avoid a repeat of that problem, so if anyone knows what could cause such an occurance I'd appreciate hearing about it. Thanks, Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
