"Could not write bytes:broken pipe" - Are data safe?

[Ioannis Vranos]

OS: Ubuntu 10.10 x86


Hi to all,

At my laptop I have 2 HDDs, in the first HDD I have my Ubuntu
installation and in the second I have some virtual machines (as file
images). Both partitions are formatted as ext4.

Because Vista is crawling after each boot, I made /etc/fstab:


/dev/mapper/vmware    /mnt/vmware    ext4     defaults,

==> data=writeback,

==> commit=600

  0   3


Since it is a laptop anyway, I also made:

/dev/mapper/Acer--Aspire--8920G-root /               ext4
errors=remount-ro,

==> commit=600

0       1


Some times, during shutdown a last message is being printed:

"Could not write bytes:broken pipe".


Is it possible to get corrupted filesystems/lost data because of this
message?




Thanks a lot,

-- 
Ioannis Vranos

http://www.cpp-software.net