On 06/19/2011 12:36 AM, khorzan wrote:
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> I was using LibreOffice 3.3.1 to do some document editing when my
> system froze in the middle of an autosave. (It’s an irregular hardware
> issue as far as I can tell).
-=welcome=- new poster (openSUSE 11.2 has passed its end of life, are
you using Evergreen to keep it alive, or what?)
sounds strange…should not happen, ever…and, i’ve not seen this
reported before (of course, i don’t remember breakfast either)
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has it happened to you before?
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if so, did you file a bug or how did you try to resolve the problem?
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did it happen with OpenOffice, also?
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what was the size of the file being auto-saved?
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how much RAM do you have?
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what size swap?
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how much unused space exists in your root partition and the partition
where the file in question was placed
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are either of those partitions NTFS? or any non-Linux partition
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how did you get to LibreOffice (from OpenOffice) on 11.2? (using an
openSUSE repo, or?)
> Unfortunately, both the document and it’s
> backup now show a file size of 0 kb.
you might find the remains of what was open and being edited in /tmp
or /var/tmp, but i don’t actually know enough about how LibreOffice
handles it open/transitory files (maybe it does all of that in RAM)
be very careful if nosing around in /tmp or /var/tmp, many (maybe all)
of those files are in use by the system, and do NOT remove them or write
to them…
> I am running OpenSuse 11.2, and I’m fairly sure I used ext4 as the file
> system when installing.
to answer your question (“what file system did i use?”) and several of
my questions above, please show us the output of entering each of the
following into a terminal, one at a time
df -h
sudo /sbin/fdisk -l
cat /proc/partitions
cat /etc/fstab
free
mount
sudo cat /boot/grub/menu.lst
zypper lr -d
copy/paste the output into paste.opensuse.org and return the URL address
back to here, please
> What tool(s) should I consider to try to
> retrieve my data, assuming there is anything left to retrieve?
as the others have said, your search is probably not going to make you
smile…
do you have an off machine back up?
but, even if this file is gone forever you do need to try to find out
what went wrong, and fix it (i think maybe you filled RAM/swap or
root–any of those might cause what you report…or, maybe you had a
problem with a non-Linux file system…or, maybe you are using a RAID
or LVM or other ‘fancy’ file magic, which burped…
oh, i have some other questions:
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the partitions in use, are they on your local machine, or somewhere
on the network local or not?
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the openSUSE 11.2 you are using, is it installed on the physical
machine you are using or is it running in a VM? if in a VM what is the
host operating system and what VM are you running?
> I have
> found references to Testdisk, and I have an older copy of Knoppix
> available. Is there anything else out there that I should look into?
i’d use mc to manually search the /tmp and /var/tmp for very strangely
named files of about the right size… (looking on the partition of two
zero length, correctly named files is not gonna bring a smile, i don’t
think…)
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dd
http://is.gd/bpoMD