System Recovery

[John Abreau]

On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Michael ODonnell wrote:

>
>
>> my first guess would be that you mistakenly pointed K3b at your
>> hard drive instead of the DVD drive.
>
> I'd think the damage would be much worse if that were the case,
> so my guess is that some b0rken kernel code (or maybe a HW
> problem) corrupted some memory that happened to correspond to
> metadata for /var and those bad data got written back to disk.


Perhaps. Or maybe k3b only started scribbling on the /var partition, then 
the machine rebooted when something critical in /var was stomped on.


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