[Users] claws-mail and file system corruption

[Abrolag]

On Mon, 04 May 2020 06:45:37 +0200
briand at pounceofcats.com <briand at pounceofcats.com> wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I hesitate to even bring this up, but i can't seem to figure out what's going on and i'm reaching for the very, extremely, improbable.
>
>Twice now i've had filesystem corruption (linux, ext4) and the majority of the recovered data from fsck were files/folders in Mail.  which seems reasonable (because it's touched frequenctly) except

Is this on spinning rust?

If so it might be a bad patch on the disk. Claws writes quite small files, so
they might be written in the same area of the disk.

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W J G