tlug: odd fs behavior?

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Scott" == Scott Stone <sstone@example.com> writes:

    Scott> One of our people came in today to find most, but not all,
    Scott> of the files in his home directory gone. [ ... ]

This is a nfs-mounted directory (and so it should affect other people
too; I'm not accusing NFS), or a local HD?

Have you looked at ~/.bash_history?

    Scott> any ideas?

(0) He overran his disk quota a long time ago and when the buffers got 
flushed ....

(1) He left his terminal still logged in and somebody is trying to
teach him a lesson.

(2) He did something really stupid, and is pretending not to know.

(3) He didn't really want to work today.

I've seen all of the above, but only (0) on a Linux system.  However,
in that case old files should be safe, which doesn't sound like the
case here.  It also involved a flaky MO drive.



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