Package: xz-utils Version: 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2.1 Severity: normal Hello,
I was archiving and xz-compressing mail from last year when my laptop tripped thermal protection and switched off. The resulting filesystem situation is this: $ ls -la total 588256 drwxr-xr-x 2 enrico enrico 16384 Feb 8 13:29 . drwxr-xr-x 15 enrico enrico 4096 Feb 8 13:07 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 enrico enrico 80788 Feb 8 13:21 debian-curiosa.xz -rw-r--r-- 1 enrico enrico 77312 Feb 8 13:21 debian-custom.xz [..] -rw-r--r-- 1 enrico enrico 6741700 Feb 8 13:21 osm-talk-it.xz -rw-r--r-- 1 enrico enrico 0 Feb 8 13:21 sent-mail.xz -rw-r--r-- 1 enrico enrico 0 Feb 8 13:21 smartphone.xz -rw-r--r-- 1 enrico enrico 0 Feb 8 13:21 sourceforge.xz -rw-r--r-- 1 enrico enrico 0 Feb 8 13:21 tham.xz The source files are gone, and the target files are empty. I have not checked xz's sources, but this looks like the result of a missing fdatasync on the target file before the source has been removed. I'll now go and cry for the loss of my whole sent-mail archive from last year. Enrico -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages xz-utils depends on: ii libc6 2.21-7 ii liblzma5 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2.1 xz-utils recommends no packages. xz-utils suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
