Just so you guys know, I have not been using a journaling file 
system...figuring the it would be easier on my battery for the most 
part.  I'll go a head an check my lost+found folder when i get home.  
Never really understood what the folder is for.  Moot point now since 
i've already reconfigured everything back to the way it was...but it's 
still good to know.  Thanks.

> On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 22:13, Ravi Parimi wrote:
> 
> > > So any way, it completed all it's checks and then I was able to 
boot up
> > > like  normal.  Now the real fun begins.... alot of my preferences 
were
> > > gone, and it came up with the default windowmaker desktop... 
fonts were
> > > back to defaults, my dock apps didn't load, Mozilla is missing 
filters,
> > > and several other things are no longer setup up.... can someone 
explain
> > > to me why this happend?  and how i can prevent it from happening 
in the
> > > future?
> > 
> > I am not sure why your windowmanager settings got changed - hard to
> > believe that it could be because of the crash. Which distribution 
and
> > version are you using? The latest distros(Red Hat, Suse, Debian 
etc. )
> > all give you the option of formatting partitions with a journaling
> > filesystem such as ext3 or reiserfs. Journaling filesystems maintain
> > transaction logs of all changes being done to a filesystem and are
> > better at recovering from crashes than non-journaling filesystems 
like
> > ext2. With a proper plan in mind, you can also migrate your existing
> > filesystem to a ext3 or reiserfs.
> -----
> Not sure that he wants to use a journaling filesystem with a
> laptop...kind of hell on battery life.
> 
> It would appear that most of the files in your home directory got 
hosed
> and depending upon what occurred, some of the files might have ended 
up
> in lost+found directory in the root of your mount.
> 
> How can your prevent it from happening in the future? Well a journaled
> filesystem as suggested might be of some help. Another suggesting 
might
> be to use shutdown now -F[rh] once in a while.
> 
> see man shutdown
> 
> Craig
> 
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