A Curious Problem (seemingly resolved, thankfully, but still.....)

[Nathan Bahn]

Has anyone ever encountered an issue wherein all (and I do mean ALL) of the
changes made within a partition disappeared -- or were reverted -- when the
machine rebooted?

My machine is set up to dual-boot Ubuntu 10.10 and openSUSE 11.3 with a 3rd
partition holding the files from another hard drive that was crapping out.
The 1st hint of a problem that arose after the rebooting was that the
torrent files (not the actual files that were downloaded -- those I have
stored in the 3rd partition) had disappeared from the Transmission program.
Then I noticed that the sound was gone! (And by the way, I wish to express
my gratitude to Basil Chupin; I was able to remember just enough of his
instructions to get ALSA working properly again -- exactly why PulseAudio
interferes with ALSA is something I simply do NOT understand!) So now I'm
slowly restoring the settings (Next job:  Restoring all of the fonts that
were erased from OOo.) but would like to be able to avoid this problem from
recurring; hence my question.

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