I had it happen many times as well. A power outage or a thrashing system were often accompanied with an fsck and file loss on ext2. This even included system fi

I had it happen many times as well. A power outage or a thrashing system were often accompanied with an fsck and file loss on ext2. This even included system files like libgtk.so because they were open at the moment of crashing. I never understood why reading/opening a file would corrupt it on a crash. I was happy to switch to Reiserfs.