Re: Files gradually disappearing

From: Leura (luera_at_nospam.com)
Date: 09/11/03 

Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 23:04:11 GMT

"Jem Berkes" <jb@users.pc9.org> wrote in message
news:Xns93F24F2B1F013jbuserspc9org@130.179.16.24...
> > The files I copied to the new partitioned disk yesterday now start
> > disappearing again today and left some empty folders. So it should be
> > nothing to do with partitioning.
>
> Wait, shouldn't it be an easy matter to figure out whether the files are
> disappearing due to hardware error, or network malice?
>
> Re-install fresh, DO NOT connect the machine to a network, and see what
> happens to your files. Sorry if this has already been brought up.

Yes, I share this disk to my home network via NFS and samba. However, my
home network is basically only used by my myself, which is behind a
firewalled router.

I will unshare this disk to network and see what happens.

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