<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 8:41 PM, ms <<a href="mailto:devicerandom@gmail.com">devicerandom@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">On 23/11/10 20:59, Nathan Bahn wrote: > 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. </div>Was the partition mounted? Sounds like you wrote etc. in the *mount point* directory without having actually mounted the partition. Try to unmount the partition and check if in the mount point there are some unexpected files :) -- Massimo Sandal, Ph.D. <a href="http://devicerandom.org" target="_blank">http://devicerandom.org</a> </blockquote></div> M.S.-- I realize that this must be a silly question, but where is the mount point directory? --N.B. -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html" target="_blank">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html</a>