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Lost directories.



In the past three weeks I have lost three directories.  Just
disappeared.  I lost /usr/local/bin and had to start recompiling
years's of work.  Sure, it's my own fault, but in the several years I
have been using Debian GNU/Linux, I have never had this happen.  I
can't believe I was doing anything even close to that directory.

Then I lost /root.  In the middle of a session, meaning I had to
reconstruct the .bashrc and .bash_profile files.  Very strange.  I am
sure I wasn't doing anything with /root!

Today, I lost a small subdirectory,  a symlink to another
directory, in my home directory.  In the middle of an editing session,
I had to reconstruct that directory, as a symlink, and save all files
I was working on in emacs.  If I'd shutdown, I shudder to think what
would have happened.  

I am fallable.  However, these kinds of errors have not happened to me
in many years.  Suddenly, there is a rash of events.  Can someone
advise me whether there is something I ought to be aware of?  Is this
possibly a precursor of "greater" things to come?  Hardware failure?  

I am worried.

Alan 

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Alan E. Davis                       Marianas High School (Science Department)
AAA196, Box 10001    adavis@netpci.com   http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis
Saipan, MP  96950    15.16oN 145.7oE    GMT+10       Northern Mariana Islands


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