I've posted in the past about a problem with waking up from Deep Standby for a recording and not going back into Standby, but this problem I report here gave me a fright.
I flashed my Mut@ant with OpenViX 5.2.001 and rebooted, restored settings, installed e2iplayer which was not reinstalled as part of restoring plugins and thought all was well done.
Then thought of testing to see if waking up from Deep Standby worked as it used to some versions ago, so put it into Deep Standby and a couple of hours later when a recording was meant to have started I went back to it to see if it had succeeded to go into Standby, while it was recording a program. I was confronted with this error message:
I checked the settings to make sure Timeshift was assigned to use the /media/hdd/ drive and not a USB stick I have plugged in for PICONS. The settings were all correct. I looked at the list of recorded programs and then I panicked because all the recordings were gone, except for the recording currently in progress.Code:Creating hardlink to timeshift failed! The filesystem on your Timeshift-Device does not support hard links. Make sure it is formatted in EXT2 or EXT3. [Errno 1] Operation not permitted.
I also checked the Recordings settings to see they were assigned to the /media/hdd/ drive as they should be and this setting was also correct.
I stopped the recording and deleted the current timer, unmounted both spinning disk and USB stick and run fsck on both of them. The USB had a dirty bit set. I rebooted and all my recordings were restored. Listing the contents of the USB drive revealed it had been initialised as /dev/sda1 instead of the HDD and therefore it was being used for recordings and timeshift.
Any idea why this happened and how I can avoid this happening in the future? I am avoiding placing the Mut@nt into Deep Standby for now.