[KLUG Members] disappearing from FAT partition

Dan Sikorski me at dansikorski.com
Tue Apr 25 18:12:31 EDT 2006


Eric Beversluis wrote:
> This has happened twice. The first time I thought maybe the 'save as'
> hadn't worked, so I tried again (having to redo some editing work, since
> the finished documents had disappeared). This time I carefully looked at
> the folder (/mnt/fat32HDD) and saw them there. (OO.o's "Open recent
> document" shows them with the right path, but when I click on it, I get
> told that the document doesn't exist.)
> 
> Does anyone know wtf is going on? 

Is that fat filesystem being properly unmounted when you shut down 
linux?  Try running sync before shutting down to make sure that the file 
has actually been written to disk.

	-Dan



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