On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 11:43:43PM +0000, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I had some problems with one of my drives last week (see "System no > longer boots" and "How to remove a PV from an LVM VG?" > > Now my problem is different, and stranger. > > I thought that I was going to need to get filesystem recovery software > to retrieve at least some of my data. Meanwhile, I obtained a spare > 80 GB HD and a live DVD ROM which contained Debian Squeeze. I could > boot to the live system and I did an install onto the 80 GB drive. I > rebooted into the new system and it seemed OK. I installed R-Linux to > try and recover my files, but it did not see my old drive (from which > I had done the pvmove). It was getting late and I did not want to > leave the system up untill I knew that everything was working > reasonably. So I powered down. > > The next day I was unable to boot into the new system without being > dropped into a maintenance shell. Aaaargh! So I booted into the live > system, again. I looked for my missing files and directories again. > Why would I expect to see them? I don't know. Desperation, perhaps. > The file browser did not show them. Then I tried something different. > I opened a terminal, did a 'cd' to my old home directory which I had > mounted at /mnt and did an 'ls'. Lo! And Behold! The missing > directories were there. I did a 'cd' into my main documents > directory, followed by 'ls' and my files were all there. They show up > from the command line, but not from the GUI! > > Now I really started to wonder. I opened OpenOfficeCalc aqnd tried to > browse to the directory and file that I had just seen. Nothing. The > directory did not show up. Then I clicked on the icon to 'Type a File > Name' and entered the name of the missing directory, followed my a > slash. All the files showed up! I selected one of the large .ods > files that I use a lot. A message came up, saying: > > Document file 'xxxxx.xxx' is locked for editing by: > xxx ( 06.05.2012 15:49) > Open the document read-only or open a copy of the document for editing. > > The x's above were the file name that I was trying to open and my > login on the old system. If I select Open Read-Only the file opens > right up. Other files open without the warning. I probably had that > particular file open when the system went wonky (it is almost always > open) and that is the reason for the warning dialog. > > So my question is: Why do some of my files and directories show in GUI > apps, but not all of them, while all of them seem to show up just fine > from the command line? > > Does anyone have any ideas on this? If all of my files are actually > on the disk, in good order, why can I only see them from the command > line? Is there something that I can do to make all of the files and > directories visible in GUI apps, as well? This would make my life a > whole lot easier. > > Thanks for any help. >
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