On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 12:29:27PM -0400, Martin Fick wrote: > > Nothing is in /etc/ on your old root partition? I don't see anything in > > the autofs code that would remove an entire directory hierarchy plus its > > contents. > Well, I don't have acces to the system here, I am at work, > but I didn't see any files, just a few vacant directories > left such as: > > /bin (maybe) > /dev > /etc > /home/fick (my home dir, empty!) > /mnt > /usr (was mounted externally)
Looks like the contents of fs cache. You might try to find out what's there (from single user best, but another root partition would do too) using df. Make sure to first mount read-only, then (when you can see everything is somehow still alive) remount rw. fsck'ing may be a Very Bad Idea. If you can see files it'd be a good idea to do some kind of backup (if it works, you won't need it afterwards in 99% of all cases) before going rw. There's still hope. Cheers, Steffen (BTW, it's a quite common trap, almost as efficient as chown -R xyz .*) > I had assumed at first that it was something like what you > suggested and so I simply rebooted into the other partition > and was shocked to find that nothing came back! ??? so you started another kernel and gave it the root=... arg? Then of course automount would be running before you can do anything... there's perhaps even more hope than you'd expect! -- Steffen Grunewald * * * Merlin cluster admin (http://pandora.aei.mpg.de) Albert-Einstein-Institut (MPI Gravitationsphysik, http://www.aei.mpg.de) Science Park Golm, Am M�hlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam, Germany e-mail: steffen.grunewald(*)aei.mpg.de * +49-331-567-{fon:7233,fax:7298} _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
