hacks deleted

[snotblower]

Is there any reason my tivo hacks would be automatically deleted?

I have a very old series 1 directivo. Yesterday /var/hack disappeared entirely. We did have multiple power glitches during the day. Is there some builtin routine that would do this due to multiple unexplained reboots?

[snotblower]

... and before you say it... there was no software update. the root partitions were unaffected. Only /var.

[David_NC]

When the Tivo boots, it checks the /var partition to see if the file system is corrupt, and to see how much free space is available. If there is a problem, it deletes everything on the partition and re-creates the original file structure, so all your hacks get lost.

Most likely the power went out while it was writing to /var, and corrupted something. You should keep your hacks backed up somewhere, because occasionally the log files get big enough to trigger this.

[snotblower]

hmmm. Odd that fsck couldn't fix it. The reboots were not so close together that they would have overlapped. There were just lots of them -- probably 7-8 in a day.

And /var hasn't been full. I have well over a year of cacti graphs on it. It's never even hit 50%.