Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 21:30:55 +0000
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Bradley Chapman <kakadu@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Laptop mode causing writes to wrong sectors?
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Hi!

> I too have been experiencing some problems with laptop-mode that may
> be similar to what was recently reported here.
> 
> I have a Centrino machine (Sager NP3760, aka Clevo M375E) with a 60GB
> Hitachi TravelStar hard disk running in UDMA5 and 512MB RAM, and on
> occassions I've had random files on my /usr partition overwritten and
> both my /usr and /var filesystems quite thoroughly trashed - with
> these events usually occuring right after I'd been on battery power
> and my hard disk had been spinning up and down regularly.
> 
> All my filesystems are ext3 with journaling active, and none of them
> have been messed with (i.e. resized).

Can you try ext2? Relying on journal when you are experiencing corruption 
is bad idea, anyway.

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