I just lost 44 GB of data that I downloaded in the past two hours. My PC started to get laggy and it got stuck so I just shut it down believing that all will be well since the data has already been written to disk…

  • Thetimefarm@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Do you have a RAID array of some sort? As other pointed out it’s odd for so much data to be lost with just a hard reboot.

    • sourcepie@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I have no clue what a RAID is to be honest. I was using a VM with 6 GB RAM to do some work in another operating system and passed through my physical hard drive (Host to Guest) to write the data on when suddenly my VM got stuck.

    • EpeeGnome@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Almost all of the data is certainly *somewhere *on the hard drive. It sounds like it was a write to the file system records that lost the record of where they are.