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<div>Hi;</div>
<div>Forgive the long (but necessary) background. I bought a new 500 GB hard drive for my server located on the other side of the world. I accidentally entered an erroneous command to copy everything from the <SPAN contentEditable=false style="DISPLAY: inline-block"></SPAN>old HD to the new one and ended up corrupting the OS. However, the *first* thing that happened was that command zapped my Data.fs. It was located on the new HD with a symlink for the entire var dir going from the old HD to the new one. </div>
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<div>Fast foreward to this week. I've built a new server and transplanted my 500 GB HD. I told the server farm to check it thoroughly because I suspected the hardware may have gotten corrupted. They swear they did check it thoroughly. I have 2 Zope instances. On one, I moved the var to the new HD with the symlink. I also moved my MySQL database to the new HD. I left them alone while I was working on the other Zope instance. Lo and behold, without my doing anything, suddenly the Data.fs on the Zope instance on the new HD got rewritten to 0 bytes and the MySQL database got completely nuked!</div>
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<div>My server farm tells me it has nothing whatsoever to do with the hard drive or the OS, that both are in perfect condition. I say that's nonsense! What do you think?</div>
<div>Tony</div>
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