[Bug 53102] Re: ext3 partitions are getting corrupt more often than they should

[Olivier Cortès]

I suffer the same problem on my machine.
Sometimes the system won't umount / before reboot/halt,
Rarely the system freezes after a short period of time after resume from suspend-to-ram,
Rarely the system freezes, period.
In *any* case, I loose a bunch of data. Often this data is moved to /lost+found (between 250Mb and 1Gb of data) after an extremely long manual fsck (often many manual passes are needed for the FS to be totally clean), I must reinstall from backups.

Distro : Ubuntu Dapper, up-to-date. this problem has been happening regularly since i installed my first Dapper (Flight2). On Breezy it was very occasionnal (happened 2 or 3 times "only").
HW: IBM Thinkpad T40p (this has happened on IBM X31 too when i owned it), PATA Samsung 120Gb drive (this has happened with 40 and 80Gb samsung drives on both machines). Memory should be out of cause (memtest OK on obth machines), disks *could* be (smartctl tests ran without any problems, no SMART errors logged on any drives).

** Changed in: linux-source-2.6.15 (Ubuntu)
       Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed

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ext3 partitions are getting corrupt more often than they should
https://launchpad.net/bugs/53102