Disappearing files (empty folders)

[gregfr]

Hi

I've using RedHat/Fedora for years now, and every now and then I encounter the following situation :

I open a folder and it's empty. The folder was containing files and I'm 100% sure I didn't deleted them myself. Each time the folder is deep inside the hierarchy and is among other untouched folders. Sometimes it's a folder I never use, sometimes it's a folder I use almost everyday. The missing content is not large (a few regular files).

I'm currently running F13 but I've seen this behavior before on previous versions. This is kind of scary all my work is there and my backups are also done on a a linux backup server.

I'm puzzled, I cannot see any specificities to these folders, I had no crash or cold reboot, nothing I see can explain that. Could it be related to ext3?

TIA

greg

[roelj]

Did this occur on the same hard drive?
If so, it would be wise to do a file system check.

[gregfr]

No that happened on completely different system: different computer, drive, year...
The only similarities are Fedora + ext3