And Sebastian is right in that it almost appears to be a roll back - EXCEPT all the
directories I have created since I installed this version of Ubuntu are there, just no data!
if it were truly some kind of roll back - wouldn't it have wiped them too?
I would almost suspect some kind of virus/worm but I have never heard of such an
animal on Linux. AND I don't think a virus/worm running inside of VMWare could do such damage
for a Windows VM. Besides, my virtual machine was also wiped out.
Dennis
On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 12:51 -0800, Ben Johnson wrote:
is there a possibility you did something like: rm -rf * or... find . -type f | xargs rm -f in the wrong directory or something like that? it happens to everyone eventually, at least once. Usually because of some cut and paste maneuver gone horribly wrong or a goofy typo or because you forget to escape the crazy astarisk, spaces and/or ampersands in a filename. or, maybe you moved everything accidentally. try updating your locate database then use that to find the missing files. $ su - # updatedb # exit $ locate whatImLookingFor.txt or, maybe you renamed files or directories so that they start with a period, making them "invisible" by default. do -> 'ls -a' good luck, - Ben On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 10:46:01AM -0800, Dennis Bagley wrote: > I sent this message to the rlug list (unfortunately several times) yesterday > but got > -0- feedback from anyone. I'm still looking for answers because I do NOT want > to accidentally > repeat the problem. > > So anyone have answers besides "42"? > > Thanks again > > Dennis > > > > Came into my office this morning to discover data missing from my PC. > > I am running Ubuntu 5.04 > > On Friday everything seemed to be intact and okay. I have a dual drive system > and decided to put the newest version of Ubuntu (5.10) on the second drive - it > seemed to install just fine > and I was also able to reboot into the older version. I must admit that I did > not run any programs > other than email and the browser before leaving my office for the weekend. > > HOWEVER, this morning when I tried to fire up VMWare - my virtual machine files > were GONE. The directory > where the files should have been was there but the files were not. > > Also missing: > all the bookmarks in my browser (Firefox) > all the pop3 mail on my system > all of the contacts I had in Evolution > all the "sent" mail > all special email folders I had created that contained data. > > > All my other primary files appear to be intact. Ideas? Have I been hacked? > Did the the install > screw something up? If so, how? > > (Fortunately I had a backup of the VM and the work data is stored on the > server. But I did not have a backup of > the email and contact info and that kinda torques me.) > > Thanks > > > Dennis > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > RLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
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