System Recovery

[Ben Scott]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 12:28 PM, John Abreau <jabr at blu.org> wrote:
> Perhaps. Or maybe k3b only started scribbling on the /var partition, then
> the machine rebooted when something critical in /var was stomped on.

  Or maybe k3b thought /dev/sda3 (or whatever) was the block device to
write to -- the partition block device, not the whole disk block
device.

  Any which way you slice it (no pun intended), I think it's premature
to be speculating about causes.  We lack data.

-- Ben