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author: einar
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date: 2007-07-08 11:03:21+00:00
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title: / borked (again)
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Looks like my laptop doesn't really want to keep its data in stable form. Like [I have blogged previously]({{ site.url }}/2007/05/31/borked/), the bus-reset issue apparently trashed my root partition again. I do not know the cause as it seemed a normal shutdown... but the moment I rebooted I had lost a lot of files (thankfully not on /home: I'm glad I keep data separated from the rest).

Reinstalling proved less difficult, thanks to a [Kubuntu](http://www.kubuntu.org) DVD I burnt with my other computer. However, I still had to tinker manually because of read errors (notice that this seems to be an issue with my DVD-ROM, rather than with the DVD itself). When those were unrecoverable, I manually changed the temporary sources.list to point to Internet mirrors and all was well.

I still don't know what causes such problems. I considered trying [Gutsy Gibbon](https://wiki.kubuntu.org/GutsyGibbon/Tribe2/Kubuntu) due to a new kernel, but being in alpha stage means it may get much worse bugs. [I'm tempted to file a bug](https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug/), but since there are a few othrs with similar issues, I have to check them first.

What's sure is that I'll be using [partimage](http://www.partimage.org/Main_Page) to make images of my drive. It'll be much easier to restore the configuration like that.