Comment 6 for bug 342096

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Chow Loong Jin (hyperair) wrote : Re: [Bug 342096] Re: SD Card containing /home corrupted on resume. ext4. Dell Mini 9.

On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 19:14 +0000, Paul Smith wrote:
> Yeah, I get same problem on my Acer Aspire One . Installed with latest
> download of USB install from 2009-04-17. Updated packages to latest and
> then encountered the problem.
>
> I have a 16GB SDHC card, formatted to ext4 and mounted as /home. The
> filesystem is corrupt. It mentions about the journal being invalid.
> Sorry but I haven't got the output from dmesg.
>
> It is entirely reproducable.
>
> For some reason the install won't let me try XFS else I would have tried
> that.
The problem isn't the filesystem (same problem will happen for all
filesystems). It's the SDHC card. I believe the SDHC card gets shutdown
improperly before suspending, the same as if you use /home on a USB
stick. I've heard that a newer kernel should fix this, but I'm not very
sure about which.
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Regards,
Chow Loong Jin