Given the I/O errors reported by the user, the filesystem was probably very badly damanged before the power loss event. Normally ext3 recovers from power failures without a hitch. Enabling laptop mode may increase the amount of files whose data might be lost, but power failures will not result in this kind of damage as reported by the user here and in bug #198131.
-- suspend and hibernate may cause data corruption because it doesn't syncs nor umounts external drives previously https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/198125 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