linux question

[reaper]

well seems you can ask just about anything here and get a good answer. 

i put together a server, and spent hours and hours on configuration files, and they are gone!

haha no just kidding, but they do dissapear.  this is Ubuntu Linux, and I type sudo reboot from ssh.  when i do this sometimes lots, and i mean lots of things i installed disappear.  this happens often, and another reboot seems to always fix it.  upon further investagation, i think it's the file system becoming corrupted, and journaling is supposed to prevent this.

now a good method to shutdown probably works (haven't tried), shutodown -r, but I still really wanna know what the fuck is going on.  I do a dmesg, to view the bootup reporting, and i see a lot of ext3 messages, but i'm not sure if there bad or good.

i thought I was going to some type of "safe mode" system, but i type runlevel, and it says i'm on run2, which is a full multiuser, gui boot, with networking.

it's just like wtf!! when all your work disspears

[Robot]

You need to be more clear what files are involved, and perhaps get an IRC client, and connect to irc.freenode.net or irc.efnet.net, and ask #ubuntu, #linuxhelp, #linux, etc.  Also check the official documentation for ubuntu.

[reaper]

i have no idea what exact files are gone, because it's so many, a good guess would be files that were in use when when the machine shutsdown.

it has something to do with what's mounted at shutdown, the filesystem, and jouraling features, i believe dmesg points you in the right direction.