file move causes data loss if interrupted due to system crash
Version: 8.04 with all updates applied
1) Cut a few GB worth of files from PC somewhere like the desktop or Documents
2) Paste files to an NTFS formatted USB drive
3) Make Linux crash (in my case it's a full-freeze - the mouse won't move or anything) and you have to do a hard reset.
4) Reboot. The files that had completed moving to the USB drive are gone, those that hadn't copied are still on the source drive.
What should have happened: The "completed" files from the large move should have been on the destination drive despite the system lockup.
What actually happened: The files on the destination drive were written but apparently they were not entered into the NTFS table. Running chkdsk in windows recovered the files as "found" files and as "recovered file fragments".
This is enough to make me refuse to use Ubuntu until fixed. I've never had such file loss in Windows, and it's not acceptable that a "more stable & more secure" OS would fail in such an area - ever!
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This question was originally filed as bug #303610.
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