Anne Wilson wrote:
> I had a cpu-fan failure that took out the motherboard. When I rebuilt I
> found that the ext3 partitions were fine, but the FAT32 ones were completely
> hosed. I tried every recovery tool I could find, recovering some files, but
> losing every .jpg on there.
>
> I've never trusted a vfat partition since.
You know, it would be a lot more logical not to trust CPU fans...
Modern CPUs are provided with fans for a reason. Some CPUs are better
than others at halting the system when the fan fails -- it sounds like
you experienced quite a bit of collateral damage.
In particular, you can't trust a CPU to work as designed in such cases,
and any writes to disk are dodgy.
Actually, come to think of it, not trusting computers or *any*
filesystems would also be a logical conclusion.
At least, not trusting them enough that you run regular backups.
James.
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