[kwlug-disc] m.2 data loss?

[Ron Singh]

Is the device a laptop or desktop?

See, your issue sounds similar to what I had happen last month on my play
laptop --
A T470 Thinkpad, Mint Xfce 20.2, Samsung 970 EVO NVMe SSD.

I run TLP on it and thought I would be a smartypants and set TLP to do lazy
writes to the SSD after 60 seconds of drive idle(when on battery) from the
customary 2 seconds.
Well, the T470 is set to "sleep" after 15 mins of idle time and I suppose
the "sleep" sequence messed up ny install a bit. My problems were loss of
Firefox private tabs when I rebooted and occasionally having to reboot as
my cursor hangs in the upper left hand corner.

My solution was to put the TLP settings back to default and my problems
went away.
Not sure if this is in anway relevant to your issues.

Thanks,

Ron S.



On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 6:20 PM Charles M <chaslinux at gmail.com> wrote:

> Has anyone experienced issues with data loss on a new m.2 drive? I
> installed a Samsung 980 NVMe m.2 drive a couple of days ago, installed
> Xubuntu 20.04 and set up some software. I had somewhere to go this
> morning and turned my system off. When I came back in the afternoon
> and turned things back on it seemed almost as if my .config directory
> became corrupted as a lot of software wasn't recognizing saved
> credentials (Steam, MakeMKV registration was gone, Firefox was as if
> it was refreshed). I had a look at auth.log and nothing looks
> suspicious, and I had the machine off, so I don't think it's an issue
> of being hacked.
>
> Are there other things I might check?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Charles
>
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