On Fri, 12 Sep 2008, Kelly J. Morris wrote:
Vicky Staubly wrote:
Alas, typing a filename (or directory name) is hard on the command
line. What you want is:
ls -la "/media/My Book"
(The quotes around it mark it as a single filename. You could instead put a
backslash in front of the space.)
OK, ls -la "/media/My Book" gives me the following:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -la "/media/My Book"
total 18212
[...]
drwx------ 3 kelly root 32768 2008-09-11 16:56 Recycled
[...]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
Well, as a last resort, have you looked in the Recycled directory?
That's what I thought and why this is all so puzzling. It is strange that the
total capacity of the external drive is variously 500.1 GB, 488 GB, and now
466 GB. Even considering the two methods of counting (i.e. 1024 vs. 1000)
couldn't alone account for so much of a difference.
Actually... I took 500 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000 (how I assume drive
manufacturers measure their 500GB), and divided it by 1073741824
(which is 1024 * 1024 * 1024, or a binary gigabyte), and got 465.66.
But, back to the topic at hand, if your files aren't in the Recycled
directory (and it sounds like it isn't)... then try one of the data
recovery utilities mentioned by the others - and since FAT32 is a Windows
filesystem, you can use any of those Windows utilities.
--
Vicky Staubly http://www.steeds.com/vicky/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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